PhpWiki vs. TracWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.11.5
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Modified BSD license
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
0
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Links PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples PhpWiki TracWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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 ======
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<?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
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# list
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
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}
Horizontal Rule
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