| General Features | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.30.0
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6.2.0
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0.11.5
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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| Last Release Date |
2019-03-01 (6 years ago)
|
2025-12-14 (2 months ago)
|
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
|
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-03-04 (6 years ago)
|
2026-02-27 (today)
|
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
|
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Edgewall Software
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Ruby's
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BSD
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Modified BSD license
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Ruby on Rails
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PHP
|
Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
|
0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Beta
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
general, education
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
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Software development teams
|
Any
|
| System Requirements | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
OS Independent
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
various opt. helpers
|
| Datastorage | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
MariaDB
|
0
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
507 ⭐
|
55 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
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
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
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 |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Links | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Some
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
None
|
actions (PHP)
|
yes, using Python
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Instiki | WackoWiki | TracWiki | PhpWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
| External Link |
[another site](http://example.com) |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
| Headlines |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
| Italics Format |
_italic_, *italic* |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
| Underline Format |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`monospace` |
##monospace## |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
--strikethrough-- |
~~strike-through~~ |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
^superscript^ |
<sup>above</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>below</sub> |
| Images |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
((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 |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] external image [Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] view uploaded image [Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] view and link to another image |
| Aligning Text |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
|
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
| Text Indentation |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
one two |
|
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
* list or - list |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
# list |
| Definition Lists |
term : definition |
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
term:: definition |
Term:<def> def |
| Horizontal Rule |
*** |
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