ErfurtWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. ProWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.11.0
2.0.045
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Apache Software Foundation
Helmut Leitner
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
all
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
System Requirements ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
Operating System
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix / Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Other Requirements
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Datastorage ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Optional
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Optional
No
Oracle
No
Optional
No
SQLite
Plugin
Optional
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Optional
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Other
no
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
114 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
No
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 JSPWiki ProWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Links ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
No
Usability ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
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://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
[[strike]strikethrough text]
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>text</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>text</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
Aligning Text
optional or via css
%%(text-align: right) text %%
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# numbered list
## numbered list
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
;term:definition
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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