CanvasWiki vs. TracWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Version
1.2.101
0.11.5
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2026-02-06 (today)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Edgewall Software
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
Modified BSD license
BSD
Programming Language
ColdFusion
Python
C#
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
Software development teams
System Requirements CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Oracle
Unknown
No
Unknown
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Unknown
RCS
Unknown
No
Unknown
Other
Access, SQL Server
0
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Special Features CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Links CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
No
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
No
Usability CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Access Keys
Unknown
No
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
No
Statistics CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
No
Analysis
Unknown
No
No
Output CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
No
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
No
HTML Export
Unknown
No
No
XML export
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Unknown
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
No
Extras CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[pagename]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
{title|url}
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__under__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
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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