| General Features | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
N/A
|
0.11.5
|
0.9.1
|
2.7.4
|
| Last Release Date |
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
|
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
|
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
|
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
|
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
|
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
|
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
BrainKeeper, Inc.
|
Edgewall Software
|
Thomas Linden
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Public Domain (!)
|
N/A
|
Modified BSD license
|
GPL
|
GPL2+
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
N/A
|
Python
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
N/A
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
|
0
|
GPL / none
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
N/A
|
Beta
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
small + medium sites, development teams
|
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
|
Software development teams
|
average to advanced users
|
All
|
| Hosting Features | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No Restrictions
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
any
|
N/A
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
Unix
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
anything with PHP support
|
N/A
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
apache
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
N/A
|
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
mod_rewrite optional
|
none
|
| Datastorage | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
no
|
N/A
|
0
|
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
N/A
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
builtin
|
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 |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
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| 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 | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
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 |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
1
English |
38
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 |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Optional
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Some
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
optional
|
yes, using Python
|
Perl
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | ErfurtWiki | BrainKeeper | TracWiki | PodWiki | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
|
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
POD: L<Sandbox> L<Link Description|Sandbox> Creole: [[Sandbox]] [[Sandbox|Link Description]] BBcode: [url]Sandbox[/url] [url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
|
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
L<http://www.daemon.de> |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
|
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
=head1 The Weather |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
|
'''bold''' |
B<bold> |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''ialic text'' |
|
''italic'' |
I<italics> |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
optional or via css |
|
__underline__ |
via html only |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
==monospaced text== |
|
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
put a space in front of monospaced text |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
optional or via css |
|
~~strike-through~~ |
via html only |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript text^^ |
|
^superscript^ |
via html only |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
optional or via css |
|
,,subscript,, |
via html only |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
[link to the image.jpg] |
|
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link |
G<logo.png> |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
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 |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
|
|
via stylesheet only |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
|
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
=over =item* listitem =back |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
|
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
=over =item 1. listitem =back |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
|
term:: definition |
via html only |
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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|
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| remove ErfurtWiki | remove BrainKeeper | remove TracWiki | remove PodWiki | remove PmWiki |