MediaWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. TracWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked

General Features MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Version
1.45.3
1.02
0.11.5
6.2.1
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Artistic License
Modified BSD license
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
FREE
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any OS that runs Perl
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
none
Catalyst
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Text Files
No
Unknown
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Patch
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Other
No
0
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
140
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, 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
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
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
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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
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German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
No
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Yes
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
No
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MojoMojo TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[another page]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
__underline__
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Textile: ^superscript^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Textile: ~subscript~
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
Textile:
> text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* an item
* another item
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# item 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


# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
term::
definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
----
<hr />
----
----
----
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