Anwiki vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PageWork

General Features Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Version
0.2.5
3.2
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.32.2
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2010-12-12 (13 years ago)
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-06-25 (10 years ago)
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
Author
Antoine Walter
Hallo Welt! GmbH
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 3
GPLv3
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPLv3
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Enterprise + Technical Teams
small + medium sites, development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Medium-sized sites
System Requirements Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Operating System
Linux, Windows, probably others
Linux, Windows
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Any
Other Requirements
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
none
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
no
No
Security/Anti-Spam Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Yes
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Yes
Proprietary
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
No
Yes
Development/Support Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age or Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
2
German, English
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Links Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
Java Script
optional
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Patch
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Output Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Keywords
Keywords
Extras Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Anwiki BlueSpice MediaWiki ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork
Internal Link
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
[http://example.org The title]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
<b>bold</b>
'''bold'''
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
<i>italic</i>
''italic''
''ialic text''
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
<img src=""/>
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{image|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
<center>anwiki</center>
<center>Centered</center>
optional or via css
<center>Centered</center>
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
: indented line
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
; term : definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
<hr/>
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