ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PageWork vs. LionWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.32.2
0.4.8
3.2.4
Last Release Date
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2010-09-19 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2010-10-01 (13 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Pitt Murmann
Adam Živnéř
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPLv3
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Medium-sized sites
advanced users, minimalists
System Requirements ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
All PHP supported
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Any
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Other Requirements
none
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
No
Other
no
No
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Yes
Proprietary
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Yes
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
# 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
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Optional
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
2
German, English
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Links ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
optional
Optional
JavaScript (plugin)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
No
Output ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Optional
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Keywords
No
Extras ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork LionWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://example.org The title]
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
'''bold''
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
''italics''
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
'__underline__'
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
This is --not-- important.
'--strikethrough--'
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
Images
[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}}
[path_to_img.jpg]
Aligning Text
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
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
Numbered Lists
# 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
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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