ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.3
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any
All
System Requirements ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
none
none
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
no
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Yes
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Optional
Development/Support ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
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
Unlimited
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 PhpWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
No
Optional
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
optional
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
optional or via css
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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