| General Features | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
1.45.3
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TWiki-6.1.0
|
6.2.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (6 days ago)
|
2019-07-19 (6 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.
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
WackoWiki Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Public Domain (!)
|
GPL
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
N/A
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
small + medium sites, development teams
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
| System Requirements | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
any
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
OS Independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
| Datastorage | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | 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
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
no
|
No
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
MariaDB
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
Yes
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | 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
|
N/A
|
54 ⭐
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| Common Features | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | 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
|
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 | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, 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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Some
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
optional
|
Optional
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
actions (PHP)
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | ErfurtWiki | MediaWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[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://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
| Bold Format |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''ialic text'' |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
optional or via css |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
==monospaced text== |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
optional or via css |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript text^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
optional or via css |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[link to the image.jpg] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
optional or via css |
<center>Centered</center> |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
*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 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| Definition Lists |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
; term : definition |
$ 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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| remove ErfurtWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove TWiki | remove WackoWiki |