CanvasWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Version
1.2.101
6.2.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
ColdFusion
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
Software development teams
System Requirements CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
OS Independent
any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Other
Access, SQL Server
MariaDB
no
0
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Patch
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Interface Languages
0
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Links CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
optional
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
Patch
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Statistics CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Output CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''ialic text''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
optional or via css
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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