UseMod vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
1.2.2
2.5.4
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0.1
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2025-12-06 (24 days ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2025-12-30 (today)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (10 months ago)
2025-12-06 (24 days ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clay Alberty
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
BSD
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
C#
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
IIS 5+
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
none
Datastorage UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Other
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
no
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
.NET Membership platform
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
nofollow
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Patch
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Patch
Development/Support UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
Patch
Interface Languages
0
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Links UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Patch
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
No
Unknown
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Quoting
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
None
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
optional
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Patch
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Output UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod PmWiki TWiki ProntoWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[pagename]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
{title|url}
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!, !!, !!!
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italic''
_italic_
''italics''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
__under__
optional or via css
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
N/A
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
optional or via css
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
N/A
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
available through custom tags
optional or via css
Text Indentation
: indented
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
+
++
+++
++++
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
#
##
###
####
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

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