MediaWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. Confluence

General Features MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Version
1.32.2
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
5.2
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Atlassian
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
License
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
small + medium sites, development teams
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features MediaWiki ErfurtWiki 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 MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Apache Tomcat
Other Requirements
none
none
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
Datastorage MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Text Files
No
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
no
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
Development/Support MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Patch
No
Interface Languages
140
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, 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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Plugin
Links MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Optional
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional
optional
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Optional
No
Analysis
Optional
No
Yes
Output MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki ErfurtWiki Confluence
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italic''
''ialic text''
_italics_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
optional or via css
+underline+
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
optional or via css
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
~subscript~
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
optional or via css
Text Indentation
: indented line
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# one
## one-two
# two
# three
Definition Lists
; term : definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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