MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TracWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked

General Features MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Version
1.45.3
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.11.5
6.2.1
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2007-07-01 (18 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)
2009-04-03 (17 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.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Modified BSD license
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
No
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
0
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
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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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
Yes
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
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
plugins, templates, PHP
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
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
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Media and Files MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
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
No
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[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====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= 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'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
[[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>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* 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
# list
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
Term:<def>
def
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
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