ErfurtWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. UseMod

General Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2025-09-09 (9 months ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Andreas Gohr
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Operating System
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
no
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Optional
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4633 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
0
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
optional
Optional, PHP
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Usability ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki DokuWiki UseMod
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''ialic text''
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
''monospace''
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<del>strikethrough</del>
N/A
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
optional or via css
Plugin
N/A
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
N/A
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Plugin
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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