TracWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Wicked

General Features TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Version
0.11.5
6.2.1
2.0.8
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
The Horde Project
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Any
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Datastorage TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
0
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
25 different backends
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
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 Wicked
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
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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
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German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
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
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
HTML Tags
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
No
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
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
No
Media and Files TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Calendar
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Optional
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Optional
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples TracWiki WackoWiki Wicked
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[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 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
@@--- strikethrough @@
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
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


# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-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}
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Horizontal Rule
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