UseMod vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki vs. TracWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Version
1.0
6.1.25
TWiki-6.1.0
0.11.5
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2024-04-11 (25 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2024-04-20 (16 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2024-04-11 (25 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2024-04-21 (15 days ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Edgewall Software
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Software development teams
All
System Requirements UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
Datastorage UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
No
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
0
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
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
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Development/Support UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
0
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
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
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
None
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
yes, using Python
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Yes
No
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Output UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples UseMod WackoWiki TWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
= 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
---++++++ Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
N/A
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
~~strike-through~~
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
N/A
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;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
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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