ErfurtWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PageWork vs. PhpWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. WackoWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.32.2
0.4.8
phpwiki-1.3.14
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2005-06-15 (18 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2010-07-19 (13 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-10-23 (13 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2024-04-11 (23 days ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Pitt Murmann
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Tiki Software Community Association
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPLv3
GPL
LGPL
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
none
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
Medium-sized sites
Any
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Operating System
any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Any
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
none
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
various opt. helpers
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
No
Other
no
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Yes
Proprietary
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
optional
Optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Patch
Media and Files ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki MediaWiki PageWork PhpWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[link]]
[[link|alternate text]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
This is __underlined__.
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
This is %%monospaced%%.
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


-+monospace+-
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<s>strikethrough</s>
This is --not-- important.
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
<sup>above</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>subscript</sub>
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
<sub>below</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
vvsubscriptvv
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}}
[ 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
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
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}}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

::centered text::
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
: indented line
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
leading spaces, if activated.
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
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
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
; term : definition
: term : definition
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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