ErfurtWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
family people, hackers
Any
System Requirements ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Operating System
any
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Datastorage ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Yes
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
no
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Optional
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Patch
Links ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
optional
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''ialic text''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
optional or via css
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ 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
Aligning Text
optional or via css
no example known
<?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
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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