BrainKeeper vs. ikiwiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Version
N/A
2.67
2.3.13
Last Release Date
N/A
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
free
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Anyone
family people, hackers
Hosting Features BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Operating System
N/A
Any
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Any, or none
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
N/A
Writable data directory
Datastorage BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
No
Other
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
N/A
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Links BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper ikiwiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
[[internal]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
no example known
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
Depending on plugins:
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