ErfurtWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.2.1
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2026-03-25 (25 days ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
family people, hackers
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
any
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Other
no
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
None
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
4599 ⭐
Common Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
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
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
optional
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Media and Files ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
No
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki WackoWiki DokuWiki
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 ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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 ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
optional or via css
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
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>


##monospace##
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
optional or via css
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Plugin
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 
one
two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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