ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Wiki-Toolkit vs. Zim

General Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.45.3
0.72
0.56
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2006-08-31 (19 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2026-06-03 (17 days ago)
2006-12-05 (19 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Dominic Hargreaves
Jaap Karssenberg
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL/Artistic
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Wiki Developers
Private users, small teams
System Requirements ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything that runs Perl
Linux, Windows, OSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Anything with CGI support
None
Other Requirements
none
none
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Datastorage ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
Text Files
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Other
no
No
Text Files with index in SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Yes
Plugin Interface
File permissions
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
Preview
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
No
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
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
0
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
None
Math formulas
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Scripting
optional
Optional
None
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Usability ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
Section Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Output ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
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 Wiki-Toolkit Zim
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit Zim
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://example.org The title]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
=== Heading ===
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{./image.png}}
Aligning Text
optional or via css
<center>Centered</center>
not implemented
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
: indented line
indent with tabs
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
not implemented
Horizontal Rule
----
----
not implemented
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