PmWiki vs. TracWiki vs. Git-Wiki

General Features PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Version
2.3.33
0.11.5
1.0
Last Release Date
2024-04-20 (15 days ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
Author
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL2+
Modified BSD license
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Ruby
Data Storage
Files
Database
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Software development teams
Private, Public
System Requirements PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Ruby
Datastorage PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
0
Git
Security/Anti-Spam PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, 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
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
Links PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
yes, using Python
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Optional
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Optional
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Plugin
No
No
XML export
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PmWiki TracWiki Git-Wiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[http://example.org|The title]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
{+underlined+}
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
{-strikethrough-}
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
'^superscript^'
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{{Image.png}}
Aligning Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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