BrainKeeper vs. PodWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
N/A
0.9.1
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
N/A
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Thomas Linden
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
N/A
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
GPL / none
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
average to advanced users
small + medium sites, development teams
Hosting Features BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
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 PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
N/A
Unix
any
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
apache
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
N/A
mod_rewrite optional
none
Datastorage BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
N/A
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Plugin
Oracle
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Plugin
RCS
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Other
N/A
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
no
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
builtin
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
Development/Support BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
No
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Patch
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Unknown
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
No
Links BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
No
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Perl
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Optional
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Optional
PDF Export
Yes
No
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper PodWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
L<http://www.daemon.de>
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
=head1 The Weather
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
B<bold>
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
I<italics>
''ialic text''
Underline Format
via html only
optional or via css
Monospace Format
put a space in front of monospaced text
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
via html only
optional or via css
Superscript Format
via html only
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
via html only
optional or via css
Images
G<logo.png>
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
via stylesheet only
optional or via css
Text Indentation
via stylesheet only
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
via html only
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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