Roadkill vs. WackoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
1.6
6.2.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
27/04/2013
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-04-25 (12 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
C.Small
WackoWiki Team
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MS-PL
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
C#
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Windows Server, Ubuntu
OS Independent
any
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
IIS, Apache
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Patch
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
SQL Server, MongoDB
MariaDB
no
Security/Anti-Spam Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
No
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 Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
3
Czech, English, Polish
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
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Links Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
none
actions (PHP)
optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Optional
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
No
Patch
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Optional
No
Blogs
No
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples Roadkill WackoWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[Pagename|linkname]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[[URL|linkname]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
== Large heading
== 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
//italics//
//italics//
''ialic text''
Underline Format
_underline_
__underline__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
{{

monospace

}}
##monospace##
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
optional or via css
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
optional or via css
Images
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
one
two
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet List
** Sub item
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# Numbered list
## Sub item
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
{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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