PhpWiki vs. TracWiki vs. TWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.11.5
TWiki-6.1.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Edgewall Software
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Software development teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
0
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki 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
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Structured Data
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Features PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
yes, using Python
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Statistics PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Output PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Extras PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki TracWiki TWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
!!!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 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strike-through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
Images
[ 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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
(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:<def>
def
term::
definition
$ Term: Definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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