TracWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Version
0.11.5
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (19 days ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
No
No
Other
0
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Development/Support TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki 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
N/A
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Common Features TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
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
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
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
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples TracWiki MediaWiki TWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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 6
====== 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''
_italic_
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
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]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
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
$ Term: Definition
Plugin
{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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