TracWiki vs. UseMod vs. Zwiki vs. PmWiki

General Features TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Version
0.11.5
1.2.2
0.61
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Clifford Adams
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPLv2
GPL2+
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
All
System Requirements TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Zope
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 UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
0
No
ZODB (zope object database)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
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
Yes
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Optional
Development/Support TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
0
0
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
Email notification
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Optional
Yes
Scripting
yes, using Python
None
DTML
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Usability TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
No
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Patch
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Patch
Optional
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples TracWiki UseMod Zwiki PmWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[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]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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 6 ======
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_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
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
N/A
%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
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
;Term:Definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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