CanvasWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Version
1.2.101
6.2.0
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
WackoWiki Team
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
BSD
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
ColdFusion
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Software development teams
System Requirements CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
OS Independent
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
mod_rewrite (optional)
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
Other
Access, SQL Server
MariaDB
0
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
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
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
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
Usability CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
Statistics CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
No
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
Output CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
== 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
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[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%%
Text Indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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}
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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