| General Features | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
|
3.2.4
|
5.0.0.1
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
N/A
|
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
|
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
|
2019-02-19 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
BrainKeeper, Inc.
|
Adam Živnéř
|
Eduardo Mauro
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
N/A
|
GPL v2
|
Commercial
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
N/A
|
PHP
|
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
N/A
|
Files
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
|
free
|
39,95
|
0
|
| Development status |
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
|
advanced users, minimalists
|
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| Hosting Features | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| 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 | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
All PHP supported
|
Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
|
No need
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
none
|
||
| Datastorage | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
N/A
|
Firebird
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
No need
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
|||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
4606 ⭐
|
| Common Features | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional |
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript (plugin)
|
Yes
|
Optional, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | BrainKeeper | LionWiki | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[Main page] [Our main page|Main page] |
[[wiki page]] [[wiki page|Title]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
|
http://lionwiki.0o.cz [Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz] |
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]] [[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
|
!H2 headline !!H3 headline |
= Head1 = == Head 2 == === Head 3 ==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold'' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
|
''italics'' |
//italic// |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
'__underline__' |
__Underline__ |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
|
{{{Monospace}}} |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
'--strikethrough--' |
--Strikethrough-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
|
|
^^Superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
|
vvSubscriptvv |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
[path_to_img.jpg] |
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
~~Centered text~~ |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
: First level of indenting :: Second level |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Fruit ** Apple *** Granny smith *** Golden delicious ** Orange * Vegetables ** Garlic ** Onion |
* First item * Seconditem |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# First item ## First subitem ### First subsubitem ## Second subitem # Second item |
1. First item 1. Second item |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
;Term:Definition |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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---- |
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| remove BrainKeeper | remove LionWiki | remove ConnectedText | remove DokuWiki |