ButorWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. ikiwiki vs. PBwiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Version
2.2.1
N/A
2.67
N/A
1.9.11
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
N/A
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
N/A
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
PBworks
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
LGPL
N/A
GPL
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
Java
N/A
Perl
N/A
Python
Data Storage
Files
N/A
Files, RCS
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Anyone
Business Enterprises
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
N/A
Any
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
No
N/A
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Any webserver
N/A
Any, or none
N/A
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
N/A
N/A
None
Datastorage ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
No
N/A
No
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Other
N/A
N/A
No
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
N/A
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
N/A
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
No
Development/Support ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
1
English
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Links ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Internal Macros
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Javascript
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Usability ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Output ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Yes
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ButorWiki BrainKeeper ikiwiki PBwiki MoinMoin
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
[[internal]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
[link text](http://example.org)
[http://www.externallink.com]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italics''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<code>monospace</code>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
-strikethrough-
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
Indented block
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
<dl>
</dl>
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
---
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