TracWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features TracWiki ikiwiki
Version
0.11.5
2.67
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Anyone
System Requirements TracWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage TracWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Other
0
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Links TracWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TracWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
yes, using Python
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Usability TracWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Access Keys
No
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics TracWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Output TracWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Extras TracWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
Text Indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
term::
definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove TracWiki remove ikiwiki