ErfurtWiki vs. PmWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.5.3
6.1.29
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2025-09-03 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2025-11-08 (21 days ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL2+
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
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.
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
no
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
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.
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Optional
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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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
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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
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
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
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
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)
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki PmWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
optional or via css
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
{-strikethrough-}
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
'_subscript_'
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# 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 : 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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