CanvasWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features CanvasWiki TracWiki
Version
1.2.101
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
ColdFusion
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
Software development teams
System Requirements CanvasWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage CanvasWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Other
Access, SQL Server
0
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
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
Unknown
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki 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 CanvasWiki TracWiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Links CanvasWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features CanvasWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Usability CanvasWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Page Templates
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
No
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Statistics CanvasWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Analysis
Unknown
No
Output CanvasWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
No
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
No
XML export
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
Extras CanvasWiki 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 CanvasWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
Underline Format
__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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