Roadkill vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. WiGit

General Features Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Version
1.6
5.1.21
0.11.5
6.2.1
0.1
Last Release Date
27/04/2013
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-04-25 (13 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
Author
C.Small
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
Remko Tronçon
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MS-PL
BSD
Modified BSD license
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
C#
HTML, JavaScript
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
other
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private users
System Requirements Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Operating System
Windows Server, Ubuntu
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS, Apache
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Git
Datastorage Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Text Files
Patch
Optional
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
SQL Server, MongoDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
MariaDB
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8587 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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
Unknown
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
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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
0
Email notification
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
none
JavaScript
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Usability Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Statistics Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Contents
No
Extras Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Roadkill TiddlyWiki TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Internal Link
[[Pagename|linkname]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[InternalLink]
External Link
[[URL|linkname]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
"External link":http://externallink.com
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
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
h1. Headline
Bold Format
** bold **
''bold''
'''bold'''
**bold**
*Bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
_Italics_
Underline Format
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underline__
+underlined+
Monospace Format
{{

monospace

}}
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
@monospace@
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
,,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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet List
** Sub item
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
Numbered Lists
# Numbered list
## Sub item
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
; term
: description
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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