Instiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. XWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Version
0.30.0
1.32.2
6.1.25
phpwiki-1.3.14
16.2.0
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-03-25 (25 days ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
XWiki Development Team
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL
BSD
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
general, education
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Any
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Software development teams
Hosting Features Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
various opt. helpers
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
No
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
0
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
478 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, 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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
Optional
actions (PHP)
plugins, templates, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Output Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki MediaWiki WackoWiki PhpWiki XWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''italic''
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
<strike>striked through</strike>
--Strike--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[ 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:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[[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
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
: indented line
one
two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* list
or
- list
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
term
: definition
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Term:<def>
def
; term
: definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
***
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