| General Features | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.1.11
|
0.11.5
|
2.0.8
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
|
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
|
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
|
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
|
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
|
| Author |
Foswiki Community
|
Edgewall Software
|
The Horde Project
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
Modified BSD license
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Beta
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
Software development teams
|
|
| System Requirements | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
Any
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
Text_Wiki from PEAR
|
| Datastorage | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
|
0
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
25 different backends
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
1 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
No
|
| Special Features | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, 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 |
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Links | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
yes, using Python
|
No
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Usability | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media and Files | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Foswiki | TracWiki | Wicked |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
[a Link] [namespace:link] [link With a Title] |
| External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
[http://example.com] [http://example.com With a Title] |
| Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
+ Level 1 Heading ++ Level 2 Heading +++ Level 3 Heading ++++ Level 4 Heading +++++ Level 5 Heading ++++++ Level 6 Heading |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
@@+++ underline @@ |
| Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
~~strike-through~~ |
@@--- strikethrough @@ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
|
| Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"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 |
local.jpg http://foo.bar/baz.jpg [http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text] |
| Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
|
| Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
|
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
* Bullet one * Sub-bullet |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
# Numero uno # Number two # Sub-item |
| Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
term:: definition |
: Item 1 : Something : Item 2 : Something else |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
---- |
---- |
| remove Foswiki | remove TracWiki | remove Wicked |