TracWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. UseMod vs. Zwiki vs. Hatta

General Features TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Version
0.11.5
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.2.2
0.61
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Clifford Adams
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
GPL v2
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl
Python
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Zope
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
various opt. helpers
Mercurial
Datastorage TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Other
0
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
n/a
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Patch
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Patch
No
Development/Support TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Special Features TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
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
0
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Links TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Optional
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
No
Patch
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Optional
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
plugins, templates, PHP
None
DTML
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Usability TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Output TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Calendar
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Hatta
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
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 ======
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>for monospace text</tt>
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<strike>striked through</strike>
N/A
n/a
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
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
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

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

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