ErfurtWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. TiddlyWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
5.1.21
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
6.2.1
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
2026-03-03 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
2026-04-25 (6 days ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
BSD
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
Any
family people, hackers
Individuals, private, small groups
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Not required (optional backends available)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
A common browser
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
No
Other
no
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
optional extensions available
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
No
Unknown
Optional
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
89 ⭐
8587 ⭐
4606 ⭐
55 ⭐
Common Features ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
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 PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
optional
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Patch
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki PhpWiki Oddmuse TiddlyWiki DokuWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== 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* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italic//
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
optional or via css
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
{{{monospaced}}}
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--strikethrough--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[link to the image.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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
optional or via css
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

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

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* 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

# list
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- 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:<def>
def
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: description
Plugin
{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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Depending on plugins:
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