ErfurtWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. TWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Operating System
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
# 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 TWiki
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
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
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
Optional
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ 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
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
optional or via css
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
remove ErfurtWiki remove JSPWiki remove TWiki