Wala Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
1.1.7
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
March, 2007
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (18 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Andreas Gohr
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
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL 2
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
none
none
Datastorage Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
diffs
None
No
no
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Patch
Development/Support Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4526 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
Optional
optional
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Output Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
No
Extras Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki DokuWiki MediaWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
= headline =
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italicized''
//italics//
''italic''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
optional or via css
Monospace Format
monospaced.
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
optional or via css
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
N/A
: indented line
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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remove Wala Wiki remove DokuWiki remove MediaWiki remove ErfurtWiki