BrainKeeper vs. ErfurtWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. TracWiki

General Features BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Version
N/A
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
1.9.11
0.11.5
Last Release Date
N/A
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
Public Domain (!)
GPL
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Python
Python
Data Storage
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
small + medium sites, development teams
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Software development teams
Hosting Features BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Operating System
N/A
any
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
N/A
none
None
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Text Files
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Plugin
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Plugin
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
No
Other
N/A
no
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
No
Development/Support BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Links BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Usability BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Optional
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
No
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki MoinMoin TracWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italic''
''emphasised''
''italic''
Underline Format
optional or via css
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
`monospaced`
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
--(strikethrough)--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[[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
optional or via css
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
term:: definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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