MediaWiki vs. TracWiki vs. Wicked vs. WikkaWiki

General Features MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Version
1.45.3
0.11.5
2.0.8
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
The Horde Project
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Text_Wiki from PEAR
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
No
0
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
25 different backends
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
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
0
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Links MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Features MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
None
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
yes, using Python
No
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Usability MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Patch
Statistics MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Analysis
Optional
No
No
Yes
Output MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Media and Files MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Media Search
Keywords
No
No
No
Extras MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= 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
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
@@--- strikethrough @@
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[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]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
: indented line
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
; term : definition
term::
definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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