BlueSpice MediaWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. ErfurtWiki vs. BookStack

General Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Version
3.2
2.5.299
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
v21.12.1
Last Release Date
2021-03-16 (5 years ago)
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2022-01-06 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-03-17 (5 years ago)
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2022-01-08 (4 years ago)
Author
Hallo Welt! GmbH
Nicolas Giard
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Dan Brown
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
AGPL-v3
Public Domain (!)
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
Javascript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Everyone
small + medium sites, development teams
Small to mid-size groups and businesses
System Requirements BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Operating System
Linux, Windows
All
any
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
All
anything with PHP support
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
Other Requirements
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
Node.js
none
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
Datastorage BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
no
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Patch
No
Development/Support BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
28367 ⭐
N/A
18784 ⭐
Common Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Patch
Yes
Interface Languages
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Structured Data
Plugin
No
No
No
Links BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Features BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Optional
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Java Script
JS, CSS
optional
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Usability BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
No
Statistics BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Optional
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
No
No
Output BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Optional
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Media Search
Keywords
No
No
Filenames only
Extras BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
Optional
No
No
No
Chat
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples BlueSpice MediaWiki Wiki.js ErfurtWiki BookStack
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**Bold Text**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
*Italic Text*
''ialic text''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>Underline Text</u>
optional or via css
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
`Monospace Code`
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~Strikethrough Text~~
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript Text~
optional or via css
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
optional or via css
Text Indentation
: indented line
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
; term : definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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