LynxWiki vs. TracWiki vs. alphawiki

General Features LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Version
1.3.0.0
0.11.5
v.20160608
Last Release Date
2013-08-01 (10 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-29 (10 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
Author
J.W. Davidson
Edgewall Software
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
Modified BSD license
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
C#
Python
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
small organization to enterprise
Software development teams
private users, small teams
System Requirements LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
probably every OS
Root Access
Yes
No
Yes
Webserver
IIS7 or IIS8
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache with PHP support
Other Requirements
IronPython
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
0
None
Security/Anti-Spam LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
No
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
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
Plugin
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Unknown
Scripting
IronPython
yes, using Python
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Usability LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Section Editing
No
No
Optional
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Optional
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Statistics LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
No
Output LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
No
Optional
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Calendar
No
No
Optional
Image Galleries
No
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples LynxWiki TracWiki alphawiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
Headlines
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
_italics_
''italic''
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underline__
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
~~strike-through~~
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
^superscript^
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
,,subscript,,
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
Images
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
Aligning Text
N/A
{center I am centered}
Text Indentation
N/A
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
Numbered Lists
1. first numbered item
1. second item
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
Definition Lists
N/A
term::
definition
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Horizontal Rule
----
----
{hr}
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