| General Features | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.30.0
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R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
2.11.0
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5.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
|
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
|
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
|
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
|
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
|
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
|
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
|
| Author |
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
Atlassian
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| License |
Ruby's
|
Public Domain (!)
|
Apache License 2.0
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
| Programming Language |
Ruby on Rails
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PHP
|
Java
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database, Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
|
0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
general, education
|
small + medium sites, development teams
|
all
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
| Hosting Features | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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Unlimited
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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No
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
any
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
anything with PHP support
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
Apache Tomcat
|
| Other Requirements |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
none
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
| Datastorage | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Text Files |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
no
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
|
Freenode: #jspwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
506 ⭐
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N/A
|
113 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
None
|
optional
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Statistics | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Instiki | ErfurtWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Internal Link |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
WikiPage [WikiPage | Go here] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
| External Link |
[another site](http://example.com) |
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net [http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here] mario@wiki.net |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
| Headlines |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
!!! Big Headline !! Medium Headline ! Section Headline |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
__bold__ |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
_italic_, *italic* |
''ialic text'' |
''italics'' |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
optional or via css |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
+underline+ |
| Monospace Format |
`monospace` |
==monospaced text== |
{{monospace}} |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
optional or via css |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript text^^ |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
optional or via css |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
~subscript~ |
| Images |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
[link to the image.jpg] |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
|
| Aligning Text |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
optional or via css |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
|
| Text Indentation |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
| Definition Lists |
term : definition |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
;term:definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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