bLADE Wiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. PodWiki vs. TracWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Version
3.4.9
N/A
0.9.1
0.11.5
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
N/A
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Dale Lane
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Thomas Linden
Edgewall Software
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
GPL
Modified BSD license
GPL
Programming Language
C#
N/A
Perl
Python
Python
Data Storage
Files
N/A
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
GPL / none
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
average to advanced users
Software development teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
N/A
Unix
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
apache
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
N/A
mod_rewrite optional
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
None
Datastorage bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
N/A
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
No
N/A
Yes
No
No
Other
N/A
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
0
No
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
N/A
builtin
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
No
Development/Support bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
1
English
1
English
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
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
N/A
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Links bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Scripting
Perl
yes, using Python
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Usability bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Output bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
Extras bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki BrainKeeper PodWiki TracWiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
L<http://www.daemon.de>
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
+Heading
=head1 The Weather
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
*bold text*
B<bold>
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
=italic text=
I<italics>
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
_underlined text_
via html only
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
put a space in front of monospaced text
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
via html only
~~strike-through~~
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
via html only
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via html only
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[$image.jpg$]
G<logo.png>
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
via stylesheet only
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
via stylesheet only
indented text
Bulleted Lists
- bulleted
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# numbered
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
via html only
term::
definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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