TracWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Version
0.11.5
18.2.0
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-30 (7 days ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2026-03-31 (6 days ago)
2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
XWiki Development Team
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Servlet 5.0+
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
0
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
No
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
No
Patch
Statistics TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Patch
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Patch
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Patch
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples TracWiki XWiki WikkaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
--Strike--
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
""<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
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* List
** list
*** list
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

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

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