GWiki vs. Roadkill vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Version
2.4.0
1.6
5.1.21
0.11.5
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
27/04/2013
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2013-04-25 (13 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
C.Small
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
MS-PL
BSD
Modified BSD license
BSD
Programming Language
Java
C#
HTML, JavaScript
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Windows Server, Ubuntu
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
IIS, Apache
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Patch
Optional
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Other
Google Datastore
SQL Server, MongoDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
N/A
8587 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
German, English
3
Czech, English, Polish
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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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
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
none
JavaScript
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
No
Contents
Extras GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples GWiki Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[Pagename|linkname]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://example.com]
[[URL|linkname]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
== Large heading
! 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 Format*
** bold **
''bold''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
{{

monospace

}}
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
[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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Bullet List
** Sub item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Numbered list
## Sub item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term
: description
term::
definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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