ConnectedText vs. TracWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. PodWiki

General Features ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Version
5.0.0.1
0.11.5
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.9.1
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-02-19 (7 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
Author
Eduardo Mauro
Edgewall Software
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Thomas Linden
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
Modified BSD license
Public Domain (!)
GPL
Programming Language
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
Python
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
39,95
0
0
GPL / none
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
Software development teams
small + medium sites, development teams
average to advanced users
System Requirements ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Operating System
Windows
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any
Unix
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
No need
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
anything with PHP support
apache
Other Requirements
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
mod_rewrite optional
Datastorage ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
Firebird
0
no
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
Security/Anti-Spam ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No need
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
builtin
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
No
Development/Support ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Patch
No
Interface Languages
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
1
English
Email notification
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Links ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
Yes
yes, using Python
optional
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
No
Statistics ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Optional
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Output ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Optional
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
No
No
Extras ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ConnectedText TracWiki ErfurtWiki PodWiki
Internal Link
[[wiki page]]
[[wiki page|Title]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
External Link
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]]
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
L<http://www.daemon.de>
Headlines
= Head1 =
== Head 2 ==
=== Head 3 ====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
=head1 The Weather
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
B<bold>
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''ialic text''
I<italics>
Underline Format
__Underline__
__underline__
optional or via css
via html only
Monospace Format
{{{Monospace}}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
==monospaced text==
put a space in front of monospaced text
Strikethrough Format
--Strikethrough--
~~strike-through~~
optional or via css
via html only
Superscript Format
^^Superscript^^
^superscript^
^^superscript text^^
via html only
Subscript Format
vvSubscriptvv
,,subscript,,
optional or via css
via html only
Images
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[link to the image.jpg]
G<logo.png>
Aligning Text
~~Centered text~~
optional or via css
via stylesheet only
Text Indentation
: First level of indenting
:: Second level
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
via stylesheet only
Bulleted Lists
* First item
* Seconditem
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
=over

=item* listitem

=back
Numbered Lists
1. First item
1. Second item
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
term::
definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
via html only
Horizontal Rule
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