ErfurtWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WikyBlog vs. PhpWiki vs. TracWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.5.4
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.11.5
2.67
Last Release Date
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Andreas Gohr
Josh Schmidt
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Edgewall Software
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Python
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
personal, small to medium companies
Private, Internet Communities
Any
Software development teams
Anyone
System Requirements ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, anything with PHP
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Any, or none
Other Requirements
none
MySQL
various opt. helpers
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Other
no
None
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
0
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
No
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Optional
No
No
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Links ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
optional
Optional, PHP
No
plugins, templates, PHP
yes, using Python
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Patch
No
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Output ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
No
No
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
No
No
Filenames only
Extras ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki DokuWiki WikyBlog PhpWiki TracWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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


{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strike-through~~
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^superscript^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
optional or via css
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
N/A
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Plugin
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
term::
definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove ErfurtWiki remove DokuWiki remove WikyBlog remove PhpWiki remove TracWiki remove ikiwiki