MediaWiki vs. TracWiki vs. Wicked vs. WikkaWiki vs. WikyBlog

General Features MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Version
1.45.3
0.11.5
2.0.8
1.4.2
1.5.4
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)
2007-10-24 (18 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)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
The Horde Project
Wikka Development Team
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
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)
Private, Internet Communities
System Requirements MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any
any (platform-independent)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Text_Wiki from PEAR
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySQL
Datastorage MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
No
0
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
25 different backends
Active Directory (patch)
No
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
1 ⭐
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
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
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
HTML Tags
Some
Some
None
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Scripting
Optional
yes, using Python
No
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
No
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Patch
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Patch
No
Analysis
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
Patch
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
No
No
No
Extras MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Calendar
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki TracWiki Wicked WikkaWiki WikyBlog
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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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]]
[http://example.org The title]
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 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
##monospaced##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
@@--- strikethrough @@
++Strike through text++
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<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"}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
: indented line
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
* 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)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
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>""
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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