Wicked vs. PhpWiki vs. TracWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Version
2.0.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.11.5
16.3.1
Last Release Date
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
Author
The Horde Project
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Edgewall Software
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
Modified BSD license
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Software development teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Operating System
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
various opt. helpers
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
0
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Links Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
No
plugins, templates, PHP
yes, using Python
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Output Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
No
Contents
Extras Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Calendar
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wicked PhpWiki TracWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strike-through~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
[ 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
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# list
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
Term:<def>
def
term::
definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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