TracWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Version
0.11.5
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.3.1
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
0
None
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
Common Features TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, 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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Media and Files TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Patch
Syntax Examples TracWiki DokuWiki XWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
''monospace''
##monospace##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
term::
definition
Plugin
; term
: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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