TracWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Version
0.11.5
1.45.3
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
System Requirements TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
0
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
# 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 WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki WikkaWiki
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
0
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Patch
Statistics TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Output TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Extras TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TracWiki MediaWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
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>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
: indented line
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- 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
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
term::
definition
; term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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