EditMe vs. ErfurtWiki vs. PodWiki vs. TracWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Version
N/A
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.9.1
0.11.5
2.7.6
Last Release Date
N/A
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-09-18 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (16 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2026-09-18 (23 days ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Thomas Linden
Edgewall Software
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
Public Domain (!)
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl
Python
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
0
GPL / none
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
small + medium sites, development teams
average to advanced users
Software development teams
All
Hosting Features EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
any
Unix
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
anything with PHP support
apache
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
none
mod_rewrite optional
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
Datastorage EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
no
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
0
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
builtin
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
No
Optional
Development/Support EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
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 TracWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
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 TracWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
optional
Perl
yes, using Python
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
No
Yes
Statistics EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Output EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples EditMe ErfurtWiki PodWiki TracWiki PmWiki
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]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
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
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
__bold text__
**bold text**
B<bold>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''ialic text''
I<italics>
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
optional or via css
via html only
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
==monospaced text==
put a space in front of monospaced text
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
optional or via css
via html only
~~strike-through~~
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript text^^
via html only
^superscript^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
optional or via css
via html only
,,subscript,,
'_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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
optional or via css
via stylesheet only
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
via stylesheet only
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
via html only
term::
definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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