PmWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Version
2.3.33
1.32.2
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
System Requirements PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
none
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
No
Output PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
: term : definition
; term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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