ProntoWiki vs. PmWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. Friki

General Features ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Version
1.0.1
2.5.8
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.1.1
Last Release Date
2026-03-16 (today)
2026-03-09 (7 days ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2026-03-09 (7 days ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Frank Carver
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL2+
Public Domain (!)
ASL or LGPL
Programming Language
C#
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
small + medium sites, development teams
private users and small teams
System Requirements ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Operating System
Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
anything with PHP support
Any that can run or call Java
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
none
none
Java 1.3 or later
Datastorage ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
no
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Patch
No
Development/Support ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Patch
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
0
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Links ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Patch
Optional
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Plugin
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
No
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Usability ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
XML export
No
Plugin
Optional
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Media Revisions
No
Optional
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
No
No
Extras ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki PmWiki ErfurtWiki Friki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
{title|url}
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''ialic text''
''italic''
Underline Format
__under__
{+underlined+}
optional or via css
Monospace Format
@@monospace@@
==monospaced text==
monospace
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
{-strikethrough-}
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
'^superscript^'
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
'_subscript_'
optional or via css
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[link to the image.jpg]
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
optional or via css
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
:        indented
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* first
* second
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. first
1. second
Definition Lists
: term : definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
title:        description
Horizontal Rule
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