SubWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TracWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick vs. Zwiki

General Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Version
0.1-dev
5.1.21
0.11.5
0.12.0
0.61
Last Release Date
no official
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Greg Stein
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Edgewall Software
legolas558
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Academic Free License
BSD
Modified BSD license
GPLv2
GPLv2
Programming Language
Python
HTML, JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Alpha
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Software development teams
Advanced End Users
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent (Browser Application)
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Zope
Other Requirements
A common browser
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Other
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
0
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Supports per-page AES encryption
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Development/Support SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8469 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
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
2
English, Italian
0
Email notification
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Syntax Features SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
none
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Scripting
None
JavaScript
yes, using Python
JavaScript
DTML
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Usability SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Statistics SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Output SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
File Attachments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples SubWiki TiddlyWiki TracWiki Wiki on a Stick Zwiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[WoaS test page]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
'''bold'''
*bold text*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
/italics text/
Underline Format
N/A
__underline__
__underline__
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
{{monospaced}}
{{{monospaced}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
N/A
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
N/A
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
N/A
~~subscript~~
,,subscript,,
Images
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
[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::woas.png]]
Aligning Text
N/A
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Definition Lists
N/A
; term
: description
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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