ErfurtWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Confluence

General Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
5.2
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
Public Domain (!)
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
all
Any
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Operating System
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
no
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Output ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki Confluence
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italics_
Underline Format
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
+underline+
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
~subscript~
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
optional or via css
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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