TracWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Version
0.11.5
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
5.1.21
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
0
No
None
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
optional extensions available
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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7039 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional
Optional, PHP
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples TracWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
{{{monospaced}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
N/A
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
term::
definition
; term : definition
Plugin
; term
: description
{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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