BrainKeeper vs. WackoWiki vs. TWiki

General Features BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
Version
N/A
6.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
WackoWiki Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
N/A
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
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 WackoWiki TWiki
Operating System
N/A
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
N/A
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
Yes
Other
N/A
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
Patch
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
actions (PHP)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper WackoWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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