TracWiki vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Version
0.11.5
2.7.6
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-09-18 (4 days ago)
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2026-09-18 (4 days ago)
2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL2+
GPL 2
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
All
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
Datastorage TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
0
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
# 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 PmWiki DokuWiki
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
Yes
Special Features TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
38
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
yes, using Python
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples TracWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
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]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
@@monospace@@
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
<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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
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
* 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
: term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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