DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TracWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.11.5
2.67
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Edgewall Software
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Any
Software development teams
Anyone
System Requirements DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any, or none
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
0
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
No
Development/Support DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Links DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
yes, using Python
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Filenames only
Extras DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[internal]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strike-through~~
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
term::
definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove DokuWiki remove PhpWiki remove TracWiki remove ikiwiki