DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
none
Datastorage DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
None
no
No
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Patch
No
Development/Support DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
4471 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
Yes
Interface Languages
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
140
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, 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
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Optional, PHP
optional
Optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Patch
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Optional
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Optional
Output DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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://example.org The title]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
''ialic text''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
optional or via css
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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