PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
6.1.25
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
BSD
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Software development teams
System Requirements PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
MariaDB
0
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
actions (PHP)
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Output PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==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* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
Images
[ 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:wiki.png]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[[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 RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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