Instiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ErfurtWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Friki vs. TracWiki

General Features Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Version
0.30.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.11.0
2.1.1
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2019-03-01 (6 years ago)
2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2004-05-14 (21 years ago)
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (6 years ago)
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2006-02-14 (19 years ago)
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Andreas Gohr
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Apache Software Foundation
Frank Carver
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
GPL 2
Public Domain (!)
Apache License 2.0
ASL or LGPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
general, education
personal, small to medium companies
small + medium sites, development teams
all
private users and small teams
Software development teams
System Requirements Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any that can run or call Java
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 1.3 or later
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
None
no
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
0
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
Patch
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
508 ⭐
4478 ⭐
N/A
110 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
0
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Flat
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Optional
None
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
No
Textile Support
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
None
Optional, PHP
optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Usability Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Patch
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Statistics Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Output Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
XML export
No
No
Optional
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
No
No
Extras Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki DokuWiki ErfurtWiki JSPWiki Friki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold text__
**bold text**
__bold__
'''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
//italics//
''ialic text''
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underlined__
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
''monospace''
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
monospace
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<del>strikethrough</del>
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript text^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
optional or via css
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[link to the image.jpg]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Plugin
optional or via css
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
N/A
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
:        indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* first
* second
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. first
1. second
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
term
: definition
Plugin
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
;term:definition
title:        description
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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