ButorWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. BrainKeeper

General Features ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Version
2.2.1
6.2.1
N/A
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2026-04-25 (2 months ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
WackoWiki Team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
LGPL
BSD
N/A
Programming Language
Java
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
Files
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
SMB
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
OS Independent
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Any webserver
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
N/A
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
mod_rewrite (optional)
N/A
Datastorage ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Text Files
Yes
No
N/A
MySQL
No
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
Oracle
No
No
N/A
SQLite
No
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
No
N/A
Other
MariaDB
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
N/A
Host Blocking
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Scripting
Internal Macros
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Output ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Media and Files ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Syntax Examples ButorWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
one
two
Bulleted Lists
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
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