ProWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
2.0.045
6.2.1
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
OS Independent
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage ProWiki 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
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
MariaDB
no
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Links ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Optional
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Optional
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
No
Patch
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
== 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
''italic''
//italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
,,subscript,,
optional or via css
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
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
; term: definition
{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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