DokuWiki vs. TracWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Version
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
0.11.5
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-25 (12 days ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Edgewall Software
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Software development teams
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
0
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
4592 ⭐
N/A
42 ⭐
Common Features DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, 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
0
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Links DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
yes, using Python
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Patch
Statistics DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Extras DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples DokuWiki TracWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike-through~~
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
Plugin
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
N/A
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
Plugin
term::
definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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