TracWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
0.11.5
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Individuals, private, small groups
System Requirements TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
various opt. helpers
A common browser
Datastorage TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
0
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
yes, using Python
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
No
No
Extras TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
~~subscript~~
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
----
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