| General Features | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
1.45.3
|
2.3.13
|
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)
|
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)
|
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
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Public Domain (!)
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
free
|
N/A
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
small + medium sites, development teams
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
family people, hackers
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
| System Requirements | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| Operating System |
any
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
none
|
Writable data directory
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
| Datastorage | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| Text Files |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
no
|
No
|
No
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| 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)
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
88 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| 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 | TWiki |
| 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 |
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
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
Optional
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
All
|
| 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
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
optional
|
Optional
|
Perl
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | TWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | Oddmuse | 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 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://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 ---------- |
---+ 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* |
| Italics Format |
''ialic text'' |
''italic'' |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
optional or via css |
<u>underlined</u> |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
==monospaced text== |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
=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>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript text^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
optional or via css |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/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  |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
optional or via css |
<center>Centered</center> |
no example known |
| 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 |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one ** two |
* 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 |
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: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
--- |
| remove ErfurtWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove Oddmuse | remove TWiki |