Drupal Wiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Version
8.37
5.1.21
1.45.3
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-06-12 (1 year ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
BSD
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Java
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
A common browser
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
optional extensions available
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8673 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
140
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, 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
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
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Scripting
Widgets
JavaScript
Optional
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Output Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Keywords
No
Extras Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
''bold''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
; term
: description
; term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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