TracWiki vs. Wiki-Toolkit vs. WackoWiki vs. Wiclear vs. PukiWiki

General Features TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Version
0.11.5
0.72
6.3.0
1.0
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
2026-07-18 (9 days ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
2026-07-18 (9 days ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Dominic Hargreaves
WackoWiki Team
David Jobet
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL/Artistic
BSD
GPL2
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Python
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Wiki Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
private users
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Anything that runs Perl
OS Independent
All
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Anything with CGI support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySql
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
0
MariaDB
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Plugin Interface
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
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
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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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
actions (PHP)
Not at the moment
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Statistics TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Output TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
No
Extras TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
No
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki Wiki-Toolkit WackoWiki Wiclear PukiWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Title]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[Title|http://url.to/]
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 ======
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
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
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
#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
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
- 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


#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
+ 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}
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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