ErfurtWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Confluence

General Features ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
6.2.1
5.2
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
WackoWiki Team
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
License
Public Domain (!)
BSD
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Optional
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Operating System
any
OS Independent
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Text Files
Plugin
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Other
no
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
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 WackoWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Optional
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
optional
actions (PHP)
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki WackoWiki Confluence
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
''ialic text''
//italics//
_italics_
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underline__
+underline+
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
optional or via css
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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