| General Features | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
2.1.1
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0.30.0
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1.45.3
|
1.0.1
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0.72
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| Last Release Date |
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
|
2004-05-14 (22 years ago)
|
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2026-06-20 (today)
|
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
|
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
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2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (17 days ago)
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2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
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2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
|
| Author |
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
Frank Carver
|
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Clay Alberty
|
Dominic Hargreaves
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
| License |
Public Domain (!)
|
ASL or LGPL
|
Ruby's
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GPL
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BSD
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GPL/Artistic
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Java
|
Ruby on Rails
|
PHP
|
C#
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
Free
|
Free
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
small + medium sites, development teams
|
private users and small teams
|
general, education
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Wiki Developers
|
|
| System Requirements | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| Operating System |
any
|
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows
|
Anything that runs Perl
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
anything with PHP support
|
Any that can run or call Java
|
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
Any with PHP support
|
IIS 5+
|
Anything with CGI support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Java 1.3 or later
|
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
none
|
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
|
| Datastorage | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| Text Files |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other |
no
|
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
No
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SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
Yes
|
.NET Membership platform
|
Plugin Interface
|
||
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| # of Consultants | ||||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
|
No
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No
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| Code Repository | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Mailing List | ||||||
| Support Forum | ||||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
|
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
|
||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
506 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| Preview |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Minor Changes |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Change Summary |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Special Features | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
0
|
1
English |
140
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, 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 |
0
|
| Email notification |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Links | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Patch
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
None
|
All
|
Some
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
optional
|
None
|
Optional
|
|||
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Usability | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Access Keys |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Statistics | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| Recent Changes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Recent Visitors |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Output | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
||
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| XML export |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Keywords
|
No
|
|
| Extras | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ErfurtWiki | Friki | Instiki | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | Wiki-Toolkit |
| Internal Link |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
|
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[pagename] |
|
| External Link |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
|
[another site](http://example.com) |
[http://example.org The title] |
{title|url} |
|
| Headlines |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
|
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!, !!, !!! |
|
| Bold Format |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
'''bold'' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
|
| Italics Format |
''ialic text'' |
''italic'' |
_italic_, *italic* |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
|
| Underline Format |
optional or via css |
|
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
<u>underlined</u> |
__under__ |
|
| Monospace Format |
==monospaced text== |
monospace |
`monospace` |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
|
| Strikethrough Format |
optional or via css |
|
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
|
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript text^^ |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
|
| Subscript Format |
optional or via css |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
|
| Images |
[link to the image.jpg] |
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
|
| Aligning Text |
optional or via css |
|
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
<center>Centered</center> |
available through custom tags |
|
| Text Indentation |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
: indented |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
: indented line |
multiple spaces -> |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
* first * second |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
1. first 1. second |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# ## ### #### |
|
| Definition Lists |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
title: description |
term : definition |
; term : definition |
|
|
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
|
*** |
---- |
|
|
| remove ErfurtWiki | remove Friki | remove Instiki | remove MediaWiki | remove ProntoWiki | remove Wiki-Toolkit |