ErfurtWiki vs. PmWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.5.3
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2016-03-07 (9 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2016-03-23 (9 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL2+
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
All
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
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
Other Requirements
none
none
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
no
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
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
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Optional
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Optional
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Links ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Optional
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Optional
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Extras ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki PmWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
'''italic'''
Underline Format
optional or via css
{+underlined+}
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
@@monospace@@
N/A
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
{-strikethrough-}
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
'^superscript^'
N/A
Subscript Format
optional or via css
'_subscript_'
N/A
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
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
Aligning Text
optional or via css
%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
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
: term : definition
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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