TracWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. LynxWiki

General Features TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Version
0.11.5
6.3.0
1.3.0.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-07-18 (9 days ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-07-18 (9 days ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
J.W. Davidson
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Python
PHP
C#
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small organization to enterprise
System Requirements TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
Windows
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
IIS7 or IIS8
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
IronPython
Datastorage TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
0
MariaDB
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
MS Membership and Roles
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
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
No
Special Features TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
IronPython
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Yes
Blogs
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki WackoWiki LynxWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
+underlined+
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
superscript^234^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
water: H~2~O
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
N/A
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. first numbered item
1. second item
Definition Lists
term::
definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
N/A
Horizontal Rule
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