giewiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Version
1.13.1
5.1.21
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
BSD
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
other
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
community/personal
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
System Requirements giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
App Engine
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8469 ⭐
N/A
Common Features giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Links giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Usability giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Statistics giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Extras giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples giewiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
!Headline
! 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
''Bald''
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italy//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__Undertow__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.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
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* One
* Two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term
: description
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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