ErfurtWiki vs. TracWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.11.5
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Edgewall Software
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
Modified BSD license
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
Software development teams
all
System Requirements ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
no
0
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Plugin
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Yes
Development/Support ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
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 TracWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
No
No
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 TracWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
141
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, Javanese, 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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
optional
yes, using Python
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Optional
Usability ErfurtWiki TracWiki 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 TracWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Optional
XML export
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki TracWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[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 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
__bold__
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
~~strike-through~~
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
optional or via css
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
term::
definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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