Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. TracWiki vs. alphawiki

General Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
Version
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
0.11.5
v.20160608
Last Release Date
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
Author
Tiki Software Community Association
Edgewall Software
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
Modified BSD license
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Software development teams
private users, small teams
System Requirements Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
Operating System
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
probably every OS
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache with PHP support
Other Requirements
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
MariaDB
0
None
Security/Anti-Spam Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
No
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware 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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, 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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Unknown
Scripting
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
yes, using Python
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Usability Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
Statistics Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
No
Optional
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Yes
No
Chat
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware TracWiki alphawiki
Internal Link
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[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
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
= 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'''
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
===underline===
__underline__
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
-+monospace+-
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
--strike--
~~strike-through~~
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^superscript^
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
{SUB()}text{SUB}
,,subscript,,
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
Images
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.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
::centered text::
{center I am centered}
Text Indentation
leading spaces, if activated.
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
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
;term:definition
term::
definition
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Horizontal Rule
---
----
{hr}
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