ButorWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. XoWiki

General Features ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Version
2.2.1
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.2.1
N/A
0.113
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
N/A
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-25 (2 months ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
BSD
N/A
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
N/A
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Hosting Features ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
N/A
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
Yes
Webserver
Any webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
N/A
AOLServer
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
N/A
Datastorage ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
N/A
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
N/A
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
N/A
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
N/A
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Internal Macros
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
Yes
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Statistics ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ButorWiki PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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