ErfurtWiki vs. TracWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.11.5
1.0.1
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2026-02-06 (today)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Edgewall Software
Clay Alberty
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
Modified BSD license
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
Software development teams
all
System Requirements ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
any
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
IIS 5+
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
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
Optional
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
RCS
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
no
0
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
.NET Membership platform
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Yes
Development/Support ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
No
No
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Unknown
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
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
optional
yes, using Python
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Usability ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Optional
Statistics ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Optional
XML export
Optional
No
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[pagename]
[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]
{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 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
!, !!, !!!
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
''italics''
''italics''
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underline__
__under__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
~~strike-through~~
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
<<super>> (using custom tags)
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
%%(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
{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 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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