TracWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
0.11.5
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Python
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
Any
all
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Datastorage TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Other
0
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
no
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
113 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Links TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
yes, using Python
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Optional
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
Output TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Extras TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Yes
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki PhpWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
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
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
optional or via css
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
optional or via css
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
term::
definition
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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