DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.67
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Andreas Gohr
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal, small to medium companies
Any
Anyone
small + medium sites, development teams
System Requirements DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
Plugin
RCS
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
no
Security/Anti-Spam DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Patch
Development/Support DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
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
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
No
Links DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Optional, PHP
plugins, templates, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
optional
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Patch
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Optional
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
No
Extras DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples DokuWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[internal]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
//italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''ialic text''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
optional or via css
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>striked through</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
optional or via css
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[ 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
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

optional or via css
Text Indentation
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# list
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
Plugin
Term:<def>
def
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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