ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. PhpWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.32.2
1.9.11
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Any
System Requirements ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
none
None
various opt. helpers
Datastorage ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
No
Yes
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
no
No
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
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
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Links ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
optional
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Yes
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[ 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
Aligning Text
optional or via css
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
<?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
: indented line
indented text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
term:: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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