DokuWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.0.1
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2025-12-30 (today)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Clay Alberty
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
IIS 5+
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
none
Datastorage DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
MySQL
No
Unknown
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Unknown
Plugin
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
Plugin
RCS
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
None
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
no
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
.NET Membership platform
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Patch
Development/Support DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
4500 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
No
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Patch
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
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Optional
No
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
No
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
optional
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Optional
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[pagename]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
{title|url}
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!, !!, !!!
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__under__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
optional or via css
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
Plugin
available through custom tags
optional or via css
Text Indentation
N/A
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
+
++
+++
++++
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
#
##
###
####
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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