ProWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. Sputnik

General Features ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Version
2.0.045
6.2.1
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
8.08.13
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2026-03-03 (12 days ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Yuri Takhteyev
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
Public Domain (!)
MIT/X
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
Lua
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
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
Small teams or private users
System Requirements ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Operating System
Unix / Linux
OS Independent
any
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Other Requirements
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
gcc or Lua
Datastorage ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Text Files
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Other
MariaDB
no
Git
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
No
Development/Support ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
56 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Patch
Unknown
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
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Links ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
actions (PHP)
optional
Lua, JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Patch
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Optional
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Output ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Patch
Optional
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
Optional
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Optional
No
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki WackoWiki ErfurtWiki Sputnik
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[Sputnik]]
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
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
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
# Sputnik
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
Italics Format
''italic''
//italics//
''ialic text''
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
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
> Sputnik
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Sputnik
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

1. Sputnik
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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