WackoWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features WackoWiki TracWiki
Version
6.2.0
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
WackoWiki Team
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Software development teams
System Requirements WackoWiki TracWiki
Operating System
OS Independent
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage WackoWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
MariaDB
0
Security/Anti-Spam WackoWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support WackoWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WackoWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features WackoWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Links WackoWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WackoWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability WackoWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics WackoWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Output WackoWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files WackoWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras WackoWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Optional
No
Blogs
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
Yes
Chat
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples WackoWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


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}
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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