ErfurtWiki vs. TracWiki vs. PodWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.11.5
0.9.1
2.7.4
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Edgewall Software
Thomas Linden
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
Modified BSD license
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
GPL / none
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
Software development teams
average to advanced users
All
System Requirements ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Operating System
any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Unix
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
apache
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
none
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
mod_rewrite optional
none
Datastorage ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
no
0
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
builtin
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Optional
Development/Support ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
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 TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
No
Optional
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
1
English
38
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
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Yes
Scripting
optional
yes, using Python
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Plugin
XML export
Optional
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki TracWiki PodWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
L<http://www.daemon.de>
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
=head1 The Weather
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
B<bold>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
I<italics>
''italic''
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underline__
via html only
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
put a space in front of monospaced text
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
~~strike-through~~
via html only
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
via html only
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
via html only
'_subscript_'
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
G<logo.png>
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
optional or via css
via stylesheet only
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
via stylesheet only
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* 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
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
term::
definition
via html only
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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