Wikia vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Version
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
0.11.5
Last Release Date
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL 2
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
All users
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
Hosting Features Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
N/A
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
No
No
Other
N/A
None
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, 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
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Yes
Optional, PHP
Optional
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Output Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[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
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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remove Wikia remove DokuWiki remove MediaWiki remove TracWiki