| General Features | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Version |
2009-02-14b |
R1.02b (kind of final release :-) |
1.1.3.1 |
phpwiki-1.3.14 |
2.2.0 |
1.1.6.7 |
Last Release Date |
2009-02-14 |
16-06-2005 |
2008-01-09 |
2007-07-01 |
2009-01-18 |
2009-06-15 |
Author |
Andreas Gohr |
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger |
wkpark and co-workers (please see kldp.net) |
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau |
Patrick R. Michaud |
Wikka Development Team |
URL |
www.dokuwiki.org |
erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net |
moniwiki.kldp.org |
phpwiki.sourceforge.net |
www.pmwiki.org |
wikkawiki.org |
Free and Open Source |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
License |
GPL 2 |
Public Domain (!) |
GPL |
GPL |
GPL2 |
GPL |
Programming Language |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
Data Storage |
Files |
Files, DB, RCS |
Files, RCS |
Files, DB, RCS |
Files |
Database |
License Cost/ Fee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Intended Audience |
private, small to medium companies |
small + medium sites, development teams |
less than 100,000 pages |
Any |
All |
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend) |
| System Requirements | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
any |
*NIX,Windows etc. |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others |
any (platform-independent) |
Root Access |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support |
anything with PHP support |
Apache,IIS,standalone(PHP) |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver. |
any server with PHP/MySQL support |
Other Requirements |
|
 none |
PHP4.2.x,PHP5.x / RCS (or use RcsLite written in PHP) |
various opt. helpers |
 none |
mod_rewrite (optional) |
| Datastorage | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Text Files |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
MySQL |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
PostgreSQL |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Oracle |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
SQLite |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
BerkeleyDB |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
RCS |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
Other |
 None |
 no |
can use CVS/Git backend (experimental) |
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB) |
Can provide custom data backends |
 No |
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Page Permissions |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ACL |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL |
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other |
Security plugin (since v1.1.2, ACL security module added) |
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver |
.htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available) |
Active Directory (patch) |
Host Blocking |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 No |
 Optional |
 Yes |
Mail Encryption |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
nofollow |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Blacklist |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
CAPTCHA |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Delayed Indexing |
 Optional |
 Patch |
 Optional |
 No |
 No |
 No |
| Development/Support | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Commercial Support |
 Yes, 20 listed |
 No |
 No |
 Yes, 1 listed |
 Yes, 6 listed |
 No |
Preconfigured Hosting |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Code Repository |
dev.splitbrain.org |
erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net |
kldp.net |
sf.net |
svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest |
wush.net |
Issue Tracker |
bugs.splitbrain.org |
erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net |
kldp.net |
sf.net |
www.pmwiki.org |
wush.net |
Mailing List |
www.freelists.org |
erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net |
kldp.net |
sf.net |
www.pmichaud.com |
wikkawiki.org |
Support Forum |
forum.dokuwiki.org |
sourceforge.net |
kldp.net |
sf.net |
www.pmichaud.com |
(forthcoming) |
IRC Channel |
www.dokuwiki.org |
not yet :-) |
|
#phpwiki |
#pmwiki on irc.freenode.net |
wikkawiki.org |
| Common Features | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Preview |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Minor Changes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Change Summary |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Page History |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Page Revisions |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Revision Diffs |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Between all |
Page Index |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Plugin System |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
| Special Features | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Unicode Support |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Right-to-Left Support |
 Yes |
 Patch |
 No |
 No |
|
 Yes |
Interface Languages |
 46 languages Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
 4 languages German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
 3 languages English, French, Korean |
 9 languages German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
 27 languages Breton, Catalan, Danish, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese |
|
Email notification |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Patch |
Comments |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Flat |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Flat |
Categories |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Namespaces |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Page Redirection |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Wiki Farming |
 Patch |
 Optional |
 Patch |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Structured Data |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Patch |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
| Links | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
CamelCase |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
Freelinks |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Patch |
Backlinks |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
InterWiki |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
SisterWiki |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Image Links |
 Yes |
 Patch |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Windows Shares |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 No |
Page Redirects |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Patch |
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
HTML Tags |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Some |
 Plugin |
Some |
Math formulas |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Tables |
simple |
simple + complex |
complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
simple |
CREOLE support |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 No |
 No |
 Optional |
 No |
Markdown Support |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
Textile Support |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
BBCode Support |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
Emoticon Images |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
Syntax Highlighting |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Footnotes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Quoting |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Internal Comments |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Custom styles |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
FAQ Tags |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
Scripting |
Optional, PHP |
 optional |
Plugin mechanism + *Template_* engine |
plugins, templates, PHP |
 Plugin |
Extensibility through drop-in plugins |
Content Includes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Feed Aggregation |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
| Usability | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Section Editing |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
Page Templates |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Double-Click Edit |
 No |
 Patch |
 Optional |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Toolbar |
 Yes |
 No |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
WYSIWYG Editing |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Optional |
 Patch |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Access Keys |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Patch |
Auto Signature |
 Yes |
 No |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Patch |
| Statistics | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Recent Changes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Wanted Pages |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
Orphaned Pages |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
Most/Least Popular |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 No |
 Patch |
Recent Visitors |
 No |
 Optional |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Patch |
Analysis |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
| Output | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
CSS Stylesheets |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Print View |
Print CSS |
Mobile Friendly |
 No |
 Yes |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
|
Themes & Skins |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
RSS Feeds |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
ATOM Feeds |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
Abbreviations |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Optional |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Patch |
Auto-TOC |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Patch |
Raw Export |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
HTML Export |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Patch |
XML export |
 No |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Patch |
PDF Export |
 Plugin |
 Optional |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
| Media and Files | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
File Attachments |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 Yes |
Media Revisions |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Yes |
 Optional |
 No |
Embedded Flash |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
Embedded Video |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 No |
Image Editing |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
SVG Editing |
 Plugin |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
MindMap Editing |
 Plugin |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
|
 Yes |
Media Search |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
| Extras | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Calendar |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Image Galleries |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Forums |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
|
 No |
Blogs |
 Plugin |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Yes |
 Plugin |
 Plugin |
Ticket System |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 No |
 Plugin |
 No |
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki  | ErfurtWiki  | MoniWiki  | PhpWiki  | PmWiki  | WikkaWiki  |
Internal Link |
 [[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]] |
 WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
|
 CamelCaseLink or ["free link"]
[[free link]] ==FreeLink
[wiki:PageName show name]
KLDPWiki:FrontPage
[page name] == PageName
[wiki:KLDPWiki:FrontPage front page] |
 WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ] |
 [[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[page name #anchor]] |
 CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced This is a link]]
[[forced 日本語]] |
External Link |
 [[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
 http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net |
 http://google.com/ or
[http://google.com/ Google] or
file://///server/share/file |
 http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ] |
 http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]] |
 http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
Headlines |
 ====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 == |
 !!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline |
 = Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 ===== |
 !!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
|
 ! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3 |
 ====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 == |
Bold Format |
 **bold** |
 __bold text__
**bold text**
|
 '''bold''' |
 *bold* or
<strong>bold</strong> |
 '''bold''' |
 **bold** |
Italics Format |
 //italics// |
 ''ialic text'' |
 ''italic'' |
 _italics_ or
or
<em>italics</em> |
 ''italic'' |
 //italic// |
Underline Format |
 __underlined__ |
 optional or via css |
 __underline__ |
 <u>underlined</u> |
 {+underlined+} |
 __underlined__ |
Monospace Format |
 ''monospace'' |
 ==monospaced text== |
 {{{monispace}}} or `monospace` |
 <tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>
|
 @@monospace@@ |
 ##monospaced## |
Strikethrough Format |
 <del>strikethrough</del> |
 optional or via css |
 ~~strike~~ |
 <strike>striked through</strike> |
 {-strikethrough-} |
 ++Strike through text++ |
Superscript Format |
 <sup>superscript</sup> |
 ^^superscript text^^ |
 ^supper^ (no spaces)
^^super scription^^ (with spaces) |
 <sup>above</sup> |
 '^superscript^' |
 ""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
Subscript Format |
 <sub>subscript</sub> |
 optional or via css
|
 ,,subscript,, |
 <sub>below</sub> |
 '_subscript_' |
 ""<sub>Subscript</sub>"" |
Images |
 {{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
 [link to the image.jpg]
|
 http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
or
attachment:foo.jpg
[[Attachment(foo.jpg)]] |
 [ 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
|
 http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg |
 http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}} |
Aligning Text |
 N/A
|
 optional or via css |
 only in tables:
||left[space]||
||[space]middle[space]||
||right[space]|| |
 <?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>
|
 %center% centered text
%right% right aligned |
 @@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>> |
Text Indentation |
 N/A
|
   just use 3 spaces or tabs
  indented text
|
  indented text
   indented text
and
> indented text
> > indented text
|
 ;: left indent
;;: more left indent
or
  paragraph
    and another level
|
 -> indented text |
 (4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
   indented
~indented |
Bulleted Lists |
  * item 1
   * item 1.1
 * item 2
|
 * Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
|
 * Item 1
 * Item 1.1
 continue ..
 continue ..
* Item 2
|
 * list
 or
- list |
 * Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2 |
 (4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
  - item 1
   - item 1.1
 - item 2
|
 # Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b
|
 1. Item 1
 a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 I. Item 2.I
1. Item 3
 I.#48 Item 3. with "value=48" attribute
|
 # list |
 # Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2 |
 (4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2
(more options for lists are available) |
Definition Lists |
 Plugin
|
 :definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
|
 term :: definition
|
 Term:<def>
 def |
 : term : definition |
 ""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>"" |
Horizontal Rule |
 ---- |
 ---- |
 ----
-----
------
------- (HR with different thickness (optional)) |
 ---- |
 ---- |
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| Last updated | 2009-05-27 | 2009-06-28 | 2009-02-14 | 2009-04-03 | 2009-01-22 | 2009-06-15 |
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