PukiWiki vs. TracWiki vs. Wicked vs. WikyBlog

General Features PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Version
1.5.1
0.11.5
2.0.8
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Edgewall Software
The Horde Project
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Modified BSD license
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Software development teams
Private, Internet Communities
System Requirements PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Operating System
OS independent
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Text_Wiki from PEAR
MySQL
Datastorage PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
0
None
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
25 different backends
No
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
1 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Links PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
None
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
yes, using Python
No
No
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
No
Usability PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Section Editing
Patch
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
Statistics PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
No
No
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
No
Extras PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Calendar
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PukiWiki TracWiki Wicked WikyBlog
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= 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'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
'''italic'''
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
N/A
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
~~strike-through~~
@@--- strikethrough @@
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
N/A
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[[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:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
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::
definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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