TracWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
0.11.5
1.45.3
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Python
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
A common browser
Datastorage TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
Optional
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
0
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
# 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 MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
140
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, 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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German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
Plugin
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Output TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Extras TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
~~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:wiki.png]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
; term : definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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