| General Features | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0.1
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2.5.5
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2.1.1
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R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
|
| Last Release Date |
2026-01-30 (today)
|
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
|
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
|
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
|
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
|
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
|
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Clay Alberty
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Frank Carver
|
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
BSD
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GPL2+
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ASL or LGPL
|
Public Domain (!)
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| Programming Language |
C#
|
PHP
|
Java
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Files
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
|
0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
All
|
private users and small teams
|
small + medium sites, development teams
|
|
| System Requirements | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
|
any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
IIS 5+
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Any that can run or call Java
|
anything with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
none
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Java 1.3 or later
|
none
|
| Datastorage | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| MySQL |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| 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 | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Development/Support | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
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No
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
not yet :-)
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|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
|
| Common Features | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| 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 |
0
|
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Links | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
None
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Tables |
none
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
optional
|
||
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
No
|
|
| Extras | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ProntoWiki | PmWiki | Friki | ErfurtWiki |
| 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'' |
__bold text__ **bold text** |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
''ialic text'' |
| Underline Format |
__under__ |
{+underlined+} |
|
optional or via css |
| Monospace Format |
|
@@monospace@@ |
monospace |
==monospaced text== |
| 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 |
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif |
[link to the image.jpg] |
| 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 -> |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
: indented |
just use 3 spaces or tabs indented text |
| Bulleted Lists |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* first * second |
* Item A * Item B ** Item B1 |
| Numbered Lists |
# ## ### #### |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. first 1. second |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 ##* Item 1.1a ##* Item 1.1b |
| Definition Lists |
|
: term : definition |
title: description |
:definition: explanation :anotherdef: another description |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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