| General Features | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
1.45.3
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2.3.13
|
phpwiki-1.3.14
|
| Last Release Date |
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
|
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
|
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
|
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Alex Schroeder
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Public Domain (!)
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Files
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
small + medium sites, development teams
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
family people, hackers
|
Any
|
| System Requirements | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| Operating System |
any
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
none
|
Writable data directory
|
various opt. helpers
|
| Datastorage | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| Text Files |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
no
|
No
|
No
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
Yes
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
|
#phpwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
88 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
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 | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
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 |
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Links | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
optional
|
Optional
|
Perl
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Access Keys |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | PhpWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
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 |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
| External Link |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
| Headlines |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
| Bold Format |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
'''bold''' |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
| Italics Format |
''ialic text'' |
''italic'' |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
| Underline Format |
optional or via css |
<u>underlined</u> |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
==monospaced text== |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
optional or via css |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript text^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
<sup>above</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
optional or via css |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
<sub>below</sub> |
| Images |
[link to the image.jpg] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
[ 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 |
<center>Centered</center> |
no example known |
<?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 |
: indented line |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one ** two |
* list or - list |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
# list |
| Definition Lists |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
; term : definition |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
Term:<def> def |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
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| remove ErfurtWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove Oddmuse | remove PhpWiki |