ButorWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features ButorWiki TracWiki
Version
2.2.1
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
SMB
Software development teams
System Requirements ButorWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage ButorWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
0
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support ButorWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Links ButorWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
Internal Macros
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Usability ButorWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Page Templates
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics ButorWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Analysis
Unknown
No
Output ButorWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ButorWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
No
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Extras ButorWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ButorWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
[[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
Text Indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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