ErfurtWiki vs. WikiCrowd vs. Oddmuse

General Features ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.0.16
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
29 Nov, 2010
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2010-11-29 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Stas Davydov
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP, XSL, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
Personal, Corporate, Community
family people, hackers
System Requirements ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Operating System
any
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Apache
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
none
PHP 5.2 or later, Apache mod_rewrite, iconv
Writable data directory
Datastorage ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
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
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
No
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
2
English, Russian
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
No
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
No
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
No
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Patch
No
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
optional
Plugin, JavaScript
Perl
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
Statistics ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Output ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
File Attachments
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Extras ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
No
No
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki WikiCrowd Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
@page "Another Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page] "Link to Wiki Page"
@page[Wiki Page]
[[Wiki Page or URL]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
@page[http://wikimatrix.org]
@page[http://wikimatrix.org] "It's a link to WikiMatrix"
[[http://wikimatrix.org]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
@title Some Title
@subtitle Some Subtitle
@subsubtitle Some Subsubtitle
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''ialic text''
//italic//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
optional or via css
No
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
No
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
No
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
optional or via css
_subscript_
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
@img url
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
optional or via css
No
no example known
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
No
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
@listitem Red
Green
Blue
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

No
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
No
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
No
Depending on plugins:
----
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