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

General Features TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Version
0.11.5
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.1.21
6.1.25
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)
2024-04-11 (15 days 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)
2024-04-11 (15 days 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
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
Individuals, private, small groups
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
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
OS Independent
Root Access
No
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)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
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
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
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
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Development/Support TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
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
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
No
No
Contents
Extras TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki TiddlyWiki WackoWiki
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]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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]]
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
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! 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* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__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}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</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
%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]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
}}}
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
one
two
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
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
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
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
term::
definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
; 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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