alphawiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Version
v.20160608
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Andreas Gohr
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU-GPL
GPL 2
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Software development teams
System Requirements alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
None
0
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
No
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Optional, PHP
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
{b I am bold}
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
{i I am italic}
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
{u I am underline}
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
''monospace''
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[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 I am centered}
Plugin
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
N/A
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Plugin
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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