EditMe vs. ErfurtWiki vs. PodWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. TracWiki

General Features EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Version
N/A
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.9.1
N/A
0.11.5
Last Release Date
N/A
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
N/A
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (16 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Thomas Linden
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
Public Domain (!)
GPL
N/A
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl
N/A
Python
Data Storage
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
0
GPL / none
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
Beta
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
small + medium sites, development teams
average to advanced users
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Software development teams
Hosting Features EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Operating System
N/A
any
Unix
N/A
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
N/A
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
anything with PHP support
apache
N/A
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
N/A
none
mod_rewrite optional
N/A
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Text Files
N/A
Plugin
Yes
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Plugin
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
No
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Plugin
No
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
Yes
N/A
No
Other
N/A
no
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
N/A
0
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
builtin
N/A
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
1
English
1
English
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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Optional
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Links EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
optional
Perl
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Patch
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Output EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
No
Extras EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
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]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
L<http://www.daemon.de>
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
=head1 The Weather
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
__bold text__
**bold text**
B<bold>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''ialic text''
I<italics>
''italic''
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
optional or via css
via html only
__underline__
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
==monospaced text==
put a space in front of monospaced text
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
optional or via css
via html only
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript text^^
via html only
^superscript^
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
optional or via css
via html only
,,subscript,,
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
[link to the image.jpg]
G<logo.png>
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
optional or via css
via stylesheet only
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
via stylesheet only
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
via html only
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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