Roadkill vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Version
1.6
5.1.21
0.11.5
Last Release Date
27/04/2013
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-04-25 (13 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
C.Small
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MS-PL
BSD
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
C#
HTML, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
System Requirements Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Windows Server, Ubuntu
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
IIS, Apache
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Patch
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
SQL Server, MongoDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
Security/Anti-Spam Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8587 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
3
Czech, English, Polish
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Email notification
No
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Links Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
none
JavaScript
yes, using Python
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Usability Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Statistics Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Extras Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[Pagename|linkname]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[URL|linkname]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
== Large heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
** bold **
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{

monospace

}}
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[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
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet List
** Sub item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Numbered list
## Sub item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
; term
: description
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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