TracWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. UseMod

General Features TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
Version
0.11.5
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Any
System Requirements TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
various opt. helpers
Datastorage TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
0
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Patch
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
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
No
Special Features TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
No
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Links TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
plugins, templates, PHP
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Unknown
Usability TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
No
No
Extras TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
Calendar
No
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<strike>striked through</strike>
N/A
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</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
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

N/A
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
Term:<def>
def
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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