TracWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. PmWiki

General Features TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Version
0.11.5
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
6.1.25
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
2.3.32
Last Release Date
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (5 days ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2024-03-23 (24 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-11 (5 days ago)
2024-04-01 (15 days ago)
2024-03-24 (23 days ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
WackoWiki Team
Tiki Software Community Association
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL
BSD
LGPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Python
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database
Files
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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
All
System Requirements TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
OS Independent
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
None
none
Datastorage TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
0
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
MariaDB
MariaDB
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
yes, using Python
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
actions (PHP)
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
No
Plugin
Media and Files TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Syntax Examples TracWiki TWiki MediaWiki WackoWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PmWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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====
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
===underline===
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
-+monospace+-
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
--strike--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
{SUP()}text{SUP}
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
{SUB()}text{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]]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
::centered text::
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
one
two
leading spaces, if activated.
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
;term:definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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