Wiclear vs. WackoWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Version
1.0
6.2.0
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
David Jobet
WackoWiki Team
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2
BSD
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
private users
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Software development teams
System Requirements Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Operating System
All
OS Independent
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
MySql
mod_rewrite (optional)
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
0
Security/Anti-Spam Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
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
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
Not at the moment
actions (PHP)
yes, using Python
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
No
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiclear WackoWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[Title]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[Title|http://url.to/]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
== 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**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
##monospace##
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
((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
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
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
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
{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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