| General Features | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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0.11.5
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2.0.8
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1.5.4
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
|
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
|
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
|
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
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2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
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2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
|
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
|
2007-10-24 (18 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
|
The Horde Project
|
Josh Schmidt
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL
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Modified BSD license
|
GPL 2
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GPL
|
| 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
|
Private, Internet Communities
|
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
Any
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
Any
|
Apache, anything with PHP
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
various opt. helpers
|
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
Text_Wiki from PEAR
|
MySQL
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
0
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| 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)
|
25 different backends
|
No
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
|
1 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese |
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Links | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
Some
|
None
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
yes, using Python
|
No
|
No
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
No
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | PhpWiki | TracWiki | Wicked | WikyBlog |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
[a Link] [namespace:link] [link With a Title] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
[http://example.com] [http://example.com With a Title] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
+ Level 1 Heading ++ Level 2 Heading +++ Level 3 Heading ++++ Level 4 Heading +++++ Level 5 Heading ++++++ Level 6 Heading |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
@@+++ underline @@ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
{{monospace}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
~~strike-through~~ |
@@--- strikethrough @@ |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
^superscript^ |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>below</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| 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 |
local.jpg http://foo.bar/baz.jpg [http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
|
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
|
|
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* list or - list |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
* Bullet one * Sub-bullet |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# list |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
# Numero uno # Number two # Sub-item |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
Term:<def> def |
term:: definition |
: Item 1 : Something : Item 2 : Something else |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove MediaWiki | remove PhpWiki | remove TracWiki | remove Wicked | remove WikyBlog |