BrainKeeper vs. Oddmuse vs. ikiwiki

General Features BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Version
N/A
2.3.13
2.67
Last Release Date
N/A
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Alex Schroeder
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
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
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
free
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
family people, hackers
Anyone
Hosting Features BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
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 Oddmuse ikiwiki
Operating System
N/A
Anything supported by Perl
Any
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Any, or none
Other Requirements
N/A
Writable data directory
Datastorage BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
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
No
Yes
Other
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
None (use your web server instead)
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
No
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Perl
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper Oddmuse ikiwiki
Internal Link
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
[[internal]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
no example known
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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