ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.45.3
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
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)
2018-07-16 (7 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)
2019-07-19 (6 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
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
family people, hackers
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
none
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Other
no
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Yes
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Optional
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
optional
Optional
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Output ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki TWiki
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 ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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 ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</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>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ 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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
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 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
----
---
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