ErfurtWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (27 days ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
BSD
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
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
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
any
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
A common browser
Datastorage ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Optional
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
no
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Unknown
Optional
Development/Support ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
8585 ⭐
4600 ⭐
Common Features ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
4
German, English, French, Japanese
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
optional
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki TiddlyWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== 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
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
optional or via css
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term
: description
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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