WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. TracWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Version
6.2.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.11.5
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2026-02-06 (today)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Edgewall Software
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Modified BSD license
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
C#
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
Software development teams
System Requirements WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
MariaDB
no
0
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
Unknown
BBCode Support
Patch
Plugin
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
optional
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Usability WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Patch
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Statistics WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
Optional
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
No
Output WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Optional
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
XML export
Yes
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[pagename]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
{title|url}
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''ialic text''
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
optional or via css
__underline__
__under__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
~~strike-through~~
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
+
++
+++
++++
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
#
##
###
####
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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