WikkaWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Version
1.4.2
1.32.2
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
End Users/Desktop, Education
Software development teams
System Requirements WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Any with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
Yes
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikkaWiki 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
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Links WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Optional
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Patch
Yes
No
Statistics WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Patch
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
No
Output WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Patch
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Extras WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki MediaWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= 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
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
[[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 text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term : definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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