TracWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
0.11.5
1.32.2
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Python
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
none
none
Datastorage TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
0
No
no
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Yes
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support TracWiki MediaWiki 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
N/A
N/A
Common Features TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
yes, using Python
Optional
optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Plugin
Usability TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Optional
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Output TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Extras TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[http://example.org The title]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
optional or via css
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
optional or via css
Text Indentation
: indented line
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
term::
definition
; term : definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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