GWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki vs. wxWikiServer

General Features GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Version
2.4.0
5.1.21
0.11.5
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
BSD
Modified BSD license
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Python
C++
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
NA
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
End users/Desktop
System Requirements GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
built-in
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
None
Datastorage GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Google Datastore
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
unknown
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
Development/Support GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
8587 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
2
German, 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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
JavaScript
yes, using Python
no
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Usability GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Statistics GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
No
Extras GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki wxWikiServer
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
[http://example.com]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
''bold''
'''bold'''
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
_Italic format_
//italic//
''italic''
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[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
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
] centred text
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term
: description
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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