TracWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
Version
0.11.5
6.3.0
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-07-18 (9 days ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-07-18 (9 days ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
BSD
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
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
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
0
MariaDB
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
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
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Optional
Blogs
No
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki WackoWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
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
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
N/A
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
N/A
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
N/A
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
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
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


+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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