| General Features | TracWiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.11.5
|
2.6.0
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| Last Release Date |
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
|
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
|
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
|
| Author |
Edgewall Software
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Modified BSD license
|
GPL2+
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| Programming Language |
Python
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Beta
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Software development teams
|
All
|
| System Requirements | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
none
|
| Datastorage | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
0
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel | ||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
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 |
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
yes, using Python
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | TracWiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~strike-through~~ |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
'_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 |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
term:: definition |
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove TracWiki | remove PmWiki |