Instiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Version
0.30.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.11.0
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (6 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (6 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Apache Software Foundation
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
Public Domain (!)
Apache License 2.0
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
general, education
small + medium sites, development teams
all
Software development teams
System Requirements Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
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, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
No
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
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
0
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
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
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Development/Support Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
508 ⭐
N/A
110 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
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 TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Email notification
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
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
Unknown
Links Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Optional
Some
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
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
Scripting
None
optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Usability Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
No
Statistics Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Optional
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
No
Output Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
XML export
No
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Extras Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Yes
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
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]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
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.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
''ialic text''
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
~~strike-through~~
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
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[link to the image.jpg]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
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
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
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
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
term
: definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
;term:definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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