ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Wiclear

General Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.32.2
1.0
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 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.
David Jobet
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
private users
System Requirements ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
All
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Apache
Other Requirements
none
none
MySql
Datastorage ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Text Files
Plugin
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
no
No
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
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
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
optional
Optional
Not at the moment
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Output ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Optional
Yes
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Extras ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiclear
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[Title]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://example.org The title]
[Title|http://url.to/]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!title1
!!title2
!!!title3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces
and it will be pre formatted
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100))
Aligning Text
optional or via css
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
*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
#item1
##item1.1
##item1.2
#item2
#item3
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
;def1 : the complete definition of def1
;def2 : the complete definition of def2
Horizontal Rule
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