ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.32.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.0
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2007-09-16 (18 years 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
David Jobet
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
Database
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
private users
System Requirements ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
All
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache
Other Requirements
none
none
various opt. helpers
MySql
Datastorage ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Other
no
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
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
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
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 Wiclear
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Links ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
optional
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Output ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Optional
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
No
Extras ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PhpWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[Title]
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 ]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
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>
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
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
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
optional or via css
<center>Centered</center>
<?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
;: 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
* list
or
- list
*item1
*item2
**item21
**item22
*item3
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# list
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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