TracWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features TracWiki MediaWiki
Version
0.11.5
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements TracWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
Datastorage TracWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
0
No
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support TracWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
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
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
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Links TracWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Usability TracWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics TracWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Output TracWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Extras TracWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Ticket System
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
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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