UseMod vs. TWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Version
1.0
TWiki-6.1.0
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Software development teams
System Requirements UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Other
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
0
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support UseMod TWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links UseMod TWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod TWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
None
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
Usability UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod TWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod TWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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