ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. WackoWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.45.3
2.3.13
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Alex Schroeder
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database
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
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything supported by Perl
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
none
Writable data directory
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
no
No
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
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)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
# 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
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Common Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
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 WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
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
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
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 WackoWiki
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
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
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
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
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 WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Oddmuse WackoWiki
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
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
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 ======
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''
//italics//
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
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)
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
optional or via css
<center>Centered</center>
no example known
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
: indented line
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
** two
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
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. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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