| General Features | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.30.0
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R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
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6.2.0
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0.11.5
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| Last Release Date |
2019-03-01 (6 years ago)
|
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
|
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
|
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-03-04 (6 years ago)
|
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
|
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
|
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Edgewall Software
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Ruby's
|
Public Domain (!)
|
BSD
|
Modified BSD license
|
| Programming Language |
Ruby on Rails
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
Beta
|
| Intended Audience |
general, education
|
small + medium sites, development teams
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
Software development teams
|
| System Requirements | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
any
|
OS Independent
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
anything with PHP support
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
| Other Requirements |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
none
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
| Datastorage | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
no
|
MariaDB
|
0
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
510 ⭐
|
N/A
|
55 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Plugin
|
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
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, 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 |
| Email notification |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
None
|
optional
|
actions (PHP)
|
yes, using Python
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
| External Link |
[another site](http://example.com) |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
| Headlines |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section 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 |
**bold** |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italic_, *italic* |
''ialic text'' |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
optional or via css |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
`monospace` |
==monospaced text== |
##monospace## |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
optional or via css |
--strikethrough-- |
~~strike-through~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript text^^ |
^^superscript^^ |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
optional or via css |
vvsubscriptvv |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
[link to the image.jpg] |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/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 |
| Aligning Text |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
optional or via css |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
|
| Text Indentation |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
one two |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
| Definition Lists |
term : definition |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
term:: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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