LionWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
3.2.4
6.2.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Adam Živnéř
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL v2
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
advanced users, minimalists
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
All PHP supported
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
no
Security/Anti-Spam LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Links LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
actions (PHP)
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Optional
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
No
Patch
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples LionWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
'__underline__'
__underline__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
optional or via css
Images
[path_to_img.jpg]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

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