TracWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. WiGit

General Features TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Version
0.11.5
6.2.1
0.1
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-04-25 (5 days ago)
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
WackoWiki Team
Remko Tronçon
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
other
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Private users
System Requirements TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
Git
Datastorage TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
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
Git repositories
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
# 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 WiGit
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
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
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
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
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
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
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
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)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
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 WiGit
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 WiGit
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 WiGit
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
No
No
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 WiGit
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
No
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki WackoWiki WiGit
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[InternalLink]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
"External link":http://externallink.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 ======
h1. Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*Bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_Italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
+underlined+
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
@monospace@
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,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
!image.jpg!
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
>Right-aligned
Text Indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
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


# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
Definition Lists
term::
definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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