Git-Wiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TracWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Version
1.0
1.32.2
0.11.5
2.67
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
Anyone
System Requirements Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
*nix
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Ruby
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Yes
Other
Git
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Plugin
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 Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
140
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, 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
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
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Links Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
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
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional
yes, using Python
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Usability Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
No
Output Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki MediaWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[internal]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= 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'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
{{Image.png}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[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
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
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
; term : definition
term::
definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
***
___
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Any number > 3
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spaces don't matter
remove Git-Wiki remove MediaWiki remove TracWiki remove ikiwiki