Git-Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Version
1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (1 year ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL 2
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Python
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Private, Public
personal, small to medium companies
Software development teams
System Requirements Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Operating System
*nix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Ruby
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
Git
None
0
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
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 Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, 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
No
Optional
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional, PHP
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki DokuWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
====== 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
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{Image.png}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[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
Plugin
Text Indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
Plugin
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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remove Git-Wiki remove DokuWiki remove TracWiki