BrainKeeper vs. EditMe vs. WackoWiki

General Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Version
N/A
N/A
6.2.0
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
EditMe, LLC
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
From $4.95/mo
0
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
1GB to 25GB
N/A
Other Limits
None
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
System Requirements BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
OS Independent
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
No
Oracle
N/A
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
No
Other
N/A
N/A
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
JavaScript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper EditMe WackoWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
//italics//
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
one
two
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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