| General Features | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
0.9.1
|
3.4.9
|
1.45.3
|
| Last Release Date |
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
|
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
|
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
|
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
|
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
|
| Author |
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
Thomas Linden
|
Dale Lane
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
Public Domain (!)
|
GPL
|
N/A
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
C#
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
GPL / none
|
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
small + medium sites, development teams
|
average to advanced users
|
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| System Requirements | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
any
|
Unix
|
Windows, Windows Mobile
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
anything with PHP support
|
apache
|
N/A
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
mod_rewrite optional
|
.NET 2 Framework
|
none
|
| Datastorage | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
no
|
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
builtin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
|
#49
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
No
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Patch
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
1
English |
0
|
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
| Email notification |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
optional
|
Perl
|
Optional
|
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Keywords
|
|
| Extras | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ErfurtWiki | PodWiki | bLADE Wiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
POD: L<Sandbox> L<Link Description|Sandbox> Creole: [[Sandbox]] [[Sandbox|Link Description]] BBcode: [url]Sandbox[/url] [url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url] |
[Link to a page] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
L<http://www.daemon.de> |
[http://www.linkme.com] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
=head1 The Weather |
+Heading |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
B<bold> |
*bold text* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''ialic text'' |
I<italics> |
=italic text= |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
optional or via css |
via html only |
_underlined text_ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
==monospaced text== |
put a space in front of monospaced text |
[|code sample|] |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
optional or via css |
via html only |
-strikethrough text- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript text^^ |
via html only |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
optional or via css |
via html only |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[link to the image.jpg] |
G<logo.png> |
[$image.jpg$] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
optional or via css |
via stylesheet only |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
via stylesheet only |
> blockquote text |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
=over =item* listitem =back |
- bulleted |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
=over =item 1. listitem =back |
# numbered |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
via html only |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
___ |
---- |
| remove ErfurtWiki | remove PodWiki | remove bLADE Wiki | remove MediaWiki |