ErfurtWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.3
1.5.1
6.1.29
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
Any
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
no
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Patch
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
No
Optional
No
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Structured Data
No
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
optional
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki PhpWiki PmWiki PukiWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
'''italic'''
//italics//
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
N/A
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
N/A
vvsubscriptvv
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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
optional or via css
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- 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

# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Term:<def>
def
: 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
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