ErfurtWiki vs. LynxWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Wiki on a Stick

General Features ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.3.0.0
2.3.13
0.12.0
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
J.W. Davidson
Alex Schroeder
legolas558
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
C#
Perl
JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
small organization to enterprise
family people, hackers
Advanced End Users
System Requirements ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Operating System
any
Windows
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
IIS7 or IIS8
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
IronPython
Writable data directory
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
no
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
No
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
MS Membership and Roles
None (use your web server instead)
Supports per-page AES encryption
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
English, Italian
Email notification
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
optional
IronPython
Perl
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Usability ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Unknown
Output ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki LynxWiki Oddmuse Wiki on a Stick
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[WoaS test page]]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
*bold*
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold text*
Italics Format
''ialic text''
_italics_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
/italics text/
Underline Format
optional or via css
+underlined+
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
-strikethrough-
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
superscript^234^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
optional or via css
water: H~2~O
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[[Image::woas.png]]
Aligning Text
optional or via css
N/A
no example known
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
N/A
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* one
** two
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. first numbered item
1. second item
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
N/A
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
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Depending on plugins:
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