ErfurtWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
Any
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Operating System
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
Datastorage ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Other
no
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Optional
Development/Support ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
4606 ⭐
Common Features ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
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
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, 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
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[ 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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
optional or via css
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
Plugin
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# list
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Term:<def>
def
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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