ErfurtWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.0.1
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2026-02-06 (today)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Clay Alberty
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
C#
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
all
System Requirements ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
any
Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
IIS 5+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Oracle
No
Unknown
Optional
SQLite
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Other
no
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
.NET Membership platform
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Plugin
nofollow
Plugin
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Yes
Development/Support ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
No
No
Change Summary
Plugin
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
No
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
No
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Optional
Usability ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Statistics ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Optional
XML export
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[pagename]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
{title|url}
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
!, !!, !!!
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italics''
''italics''
Underline Format
optional or via css
__under__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<<super>> (using custom tags)
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
optional or via css
available through custom tags
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
+
++
+++
++++
* 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
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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