ErfurtWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.3.13
TWiki-6.1.0
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2026-04-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Alex Schroeder
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
family people, hackers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
any
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
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 Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki Oddmuse 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
88 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
Common Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse 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
Restricted by Age
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 Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Optional
No
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
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
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
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 Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
optional
Perl
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki Oddmuse TWiki WackoWiki
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 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.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
//italics//
Underline Format
optional or via css
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
optional or via css
no example known
| 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
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* one
** two
* 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

Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
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
Depending on plugins:
; 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
----
Depending on plugins:
----
---
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