TracWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. WikyBlog

General Features TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Version
0.11.5
1.4.2
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Wikka Development Team
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
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
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Private, Internet Communities
System Requirements TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any (platform-independent)
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite (optional)
MySQL
Datastorage TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
0
No
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Active Directory (patch)
No
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
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
0
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
Patch
No
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Features TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
No
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Patch
Yes
Statistics TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Patch
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Patch
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
No
Media Search
No
No
No
Extras TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki WikkaWiki WikyBlog
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://example.org The 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 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospaced##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
++Strike through text++
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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