ErfurtWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Wikidot

General Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Alex Schroeder
Michal Frackowiak
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
AGPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
family people, hackers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Hosting Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Operating System
any
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
Plugin
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
SQLite
Plugin
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
no
No
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Yes
Development/Support ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
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
No
Special Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Optional
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
2
English, Polish
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
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
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
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
Yes
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
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
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
No
XML export
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
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 Wikidot
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki Oddmuse Wikidot
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
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
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://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
+++ headline level 3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold text**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic text//
Underline Format
optional or via css
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined text__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{monospaced text}}
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough text--
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
via bbCode plugin:
[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)
[[image src="..."]]
Aligning Text
optional or via css
no example known
= Centered line
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* one
** two
* element 1
* element 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# element 1
# element 1
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: item : description
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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