| General Features | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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1.32.2
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0.11.5
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| Last Release Date |
N/A
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
|
| Author |
Wikia, Inc.
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Edgewall Software
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
N/A
|
GPL
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Modified BSD license
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| Programming Language |
N/A
|
PHP
|
Python
|
| Data Storage |
N/A
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
N/A
|
Mature
|
Beta
|
| Intended Audience |
All users
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Software development teams
|
| Hosting Features | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| Storage Quota |
unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
none
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
none
|
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
| Datastorage | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
N/A
|
No
|
0
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
Yes
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Wikia | MediaWiki | 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 | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
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 |
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 |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
yes, using Python
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Usability | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Keywords
|
No
|
| Extras | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikia | MediaWiki | TracWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
| External Link |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
| Headlines |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
~~strike-through~~ |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
[[Image:wiki.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 |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
term:: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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| remove Wikia | remove MediaWiki | remove TracWiki |