bLADE Wiki vs. Sputnik vs. BrainKeeper vs. ikiwiki

General Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Version
3.4.9
8.08.13
N/A
2.67
Last Release Date
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
N/A
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Dale Lane
Yuri Takhteyev
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
MIT/X
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
C#
Lua
N/A
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
N/A
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
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
Small teams or private users
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Anyone
Hosting Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
N/A
Any
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, CGI, Xavante
N/A
Any, or none
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
gcc or Lua
N/A
Datastorage bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
No
N/A
Yes
Other
Git
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Yes
N/A
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
No
Unknown
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
N/A
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
0
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
1
English
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Lua, JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Statistics bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki Sputnik BrainKeeper ikiwiki
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
[[Sputnik]]
[[internal]]
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
+Heading
# Sputnik
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
*bold text*
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
=italic text=
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
_underlined text_
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[$image.jpg$]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
> Sputnik
Bulleted Lists
- bulleted
* Sputnik
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# numbered
1. Sputnik
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
___
- - -
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove bLADE Wiki remove Sputnik remove BrainKeeper remove ikiwiki