WikiMatrix

Feature Comparison

General FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Version 2009-02-14b R1.02b (kind of final release :-) phpwiki-1.3.14 2.2.0
Last Release Date 2009-02-14 16-06-2005 2007-07-01 2009-01-18
Author Andreas Gohr Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau Patrick R. Michaud
URL www.dokuwiki.org erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net phpwiki.sourceforge.net www.pmwiki.org
Free and Open Source Yes Yes Yes Yes
License GPL 2 Public Domain (!) GPL GPL2
Programming Language PHP PHP PHP PHP
Data Storage Files Files, DB, RCS Files, DB, RCS Files
License Cost/ Fee 0 0 0 0
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature
Intended Audience private, small to medium companies small + medium sites, development teams Any All
System RequirementsDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Operating System UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others any UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access No No No No
Webserver Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support anything with PHP support Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements   none various opt. helpers none
DatastorageDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Text Files Yes Plugin Yes Yes
MySQL No Plugin Yes Plugin
PostgreSQL No Plugin Yes No
Oracle No No Yes No
SQLite No Plugin Yes No
BerkeleyDB No Plugin Yes No
RCS No Plugin Yes No
Other None no gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB) Can provide custom data backends
Security/Anti-SpamDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory, MySQL, (custom available)
Host Blocking Plugin Plugin No Optional
Mail Encryption Optional Plugin No Plugin
nofollow Optional Plugin Yes Yes
Blacklist Optional Plugin Yes Optional
CAPTCHA Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin
Delayed Indexing Optional Patch No No
Development/SupportDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 20 listed No Yes, 1 listed Yes, 6 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes No No Yes
Code Repository dev.splitbrain.org erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net sf.net svn://pmwiki.org/pmwiki/tags/latest
Issue Tracker bugs.splitbrain.org erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net sf.net www.pmwiki.org
Mailing List www.freelists.org erfurtwiki.sourceforge.net sf.net www.pmichaud.com
Support Forum forum.dokuwiki.org sourceforge.net sf.net www.pmichaud.com
IRC Channel www.dokuwiki.org not yet :-) #phpwiki #pmwiki on irc.freenode.net
Common FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes Plugin Yes Yes
Change Summary Yes Plugin Yes Yes
Page History Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Revisions Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Revision Diffs Between all Between all Between all Between all
Page Index Yes Plugin Yes Yes
Plugin System Yes Yes Yes Yes
Special FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes No Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support Yes Patch No  
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
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 Yes Optional
Comments Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Categories Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes No No Yes
Page Redirection Plugin Plugin Yes Yes
Conflict Handling Page Locking Page Locking Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming Patch Optional Yes Yes
Structured Data Plugin No Patch Yes
LinksDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
CamelCase Optional Yes Yes Optional
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Plugin Yes Yes
SisterWiki No Plugin No No
Image Links Yes Patch Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Redirects Plugin Plugin Yes Yes
Syntax FeaturesDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
HTML Tags Optional Plugin Some Plugin
Math formulas Plugin No Plugin Plugin
Tables simple simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex
CREOLE support Plugin Optional No Optional
Markdown Support Plugin No No Plugin
Textile Support Plugin No No No
BBCode Support Plugin Plugin No No
Emoticon Images Yes Plugin No Plugin
Syntax Highlighting Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin
Footnotes Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
Quoting Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
Internal Comments Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Custom styles Plugin Yes Yes Yes
FAQ Tags No Yes No Yes
Scripting Optional, PHP optional plugins, templates, PHP Plugin
Content Includes Plugin Plugin Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
UsabilityDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Section Editing Yes No No Plugin
Page Templates Yes Yes Yes Yes
Double-Click Edit No Patch Optional Plugin
Toolbar Yes No Yes Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Plugin No Patch Plugin
Access Keys Yes Optional Yes Yes
Auto Signature Yes No Yes Yes
StatisticsDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Plugin Yes Yes
Wanted Pages Plugin Plugin Yes Optional
Orphaned Pages Plugin Plugin Yes Optional
Most/Least Popular No Plugin Yes No
Recent Visitors No Optional Yes Plugin
Analysis Plugin No Plugin Plugin
OutputDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Transitional
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print CSS Print CSS Print CSS Print View
Mobile Friendly No Yes No Plugin
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Plugin Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes Plugin No Yes
Abbreviations Yes Optional No Plugin
Auto-TOC Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
Raw Export Yes Yes Yes Yes
HTML Export Yes Yes Yes Plugin
XML export No Optional No Plugin
PDF Export Plugin Optional Yes Plugin
Media and FilesDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Plugin Yes Optional
Media Revisions No No Yes Optional
Embedded Flash Yes Plugin Yes Plugin
Embedded Video Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin
Image Editing No No No Plugin
SVG Editing Plugin No No Plugin
MindMap Editing Plugin No No  
Media Search No No No No
ExtrasDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Calendar No Plugin Yes Plugin
Image Galleries Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin
Forums No No Yes  
Blogs Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Ticket System No No No Plugin
Syntax ExamplesDokuWiki DetailsErfurtWiki DetailsPhpWiki DetailsPmWiki Details
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''ialic text''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.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
Aligning Text
 N/A
optional or via css
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
Text Indentation
 N/A
   just use 3 spaces or tabs
   indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
   paragraph
     and another level 
-> indented text
Bulleted Lists
  * item 1
    * item 1.1
  * item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* list
  or
- list
* 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

# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
 Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Term:<def>
  def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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Last updated2009-05-272009-06-282009-04-032009-01-22