GWiki vs. TracWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. WiGit

General Features GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Version
2.4.0
0.11.5
6.2.1
0.1
Last Release Date
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Roger Rene Kommer
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
Remko Tronçon
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
Modified BSD license
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database
other
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private users
System Requirements GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Operating System
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
All Java Servlet Container, included
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Java 1.8+
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Git
Datastorage GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
Google Datastore
0
MariaDB
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Internal and external with adapter
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
7 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
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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
0
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
CamelCase
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Usability GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Statistics GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
No
Output GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples GWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Internal Link
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[InternalLink]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
"External link":http://externallink.com
Headlines
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
h1. Headline
Bold Format
*Bold Format*
'''bold'''
**bold**
*Bold*
Italics Format
_Italic format_
''italic''
//italics//
_Italics_
Underline Format
+Unterlined+
__underline__
__underline__
+underlined+
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
@monospace@
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[[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
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
one
two
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
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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