TracWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Version
0.11.5
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (7 months ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Python
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
A common browser
Datastorage TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
0
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8695 ⭐
4730 ⭐
Common Features TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
yes, using Python
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TracWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[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
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{{monospaced}}}
''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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
; term
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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