CanvasWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. TracWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Version
1.2.101
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.11.5
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2026-02-06 (today)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Edgewall Software
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
Public Domain (!)
Modified BSD license
BSD
Programming Language
ColdFusion
PHP
Python
C#
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
small + medium sites, development teams
Software development teams
System Requirements CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
Access, SQL Server
no
0
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
No
No
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
0
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Quoting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Scripting
optional
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Usability CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Toolbar
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
No
No
Statistics CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Analysis
Unknown
No
No
No
Output CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
No
No
XML export
Unknown
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Extras CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[pagename]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
{title|url}
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underline__
__under__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
~~strike-through~~
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
Aligning Text
optional or via css
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
+
++
+++
++++
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
#
##
###
####
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
term::
definition
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