TracWiki vs. Confluence vs. WackoWiki

General Features TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Version
0.11.5
5.2
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Atlassian
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache Tomcat
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
0
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
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 TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
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
Yes
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Output TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples TracWiki Confluence WackoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
,,subscript,,
Images
[[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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
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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