| General Features | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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N/A
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N/A
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8.08.13
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| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (8 months ago)
|
N/A
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N/A
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2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (2 months ago)
|
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
|
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
|
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
BrainKeeper, Inc.
|
PBworks
|
Yuri Takhteyev
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
|
N/A
|
N/A
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MIT/X
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Lua
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
|
Determined by Solution Needs
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
|
Business Enterprises
|
Small teams or private users
|
| Hosting Features | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
No limit
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
No limit
|
N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
|
None
|
None
|
N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No Restrictions
|
None
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
N/A
|
gcc or Lua
|
|
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Other |
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Git
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
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| Code Repository |
N/A
|
N/A
|
||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
4622 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| Interface Languages |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
1
English |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
No
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
Javascript
|
Lua, JavaScript
|
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | PBwiki | Sputnik |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
|
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
[[Sputnik]] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
|
[http://www.externallink.com] |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
|
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
# Sputnik |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
|
**bold** |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
|
''italics'' |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
|
__underline__ |
|
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
|
<code>monospace</code> |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
-strikethrough- |
|
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
|
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
|
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
|
<left>, <center>, <right> |
|
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
|
Indented block |
> Sputnik |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
|
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
* Sputnik |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
|
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
1. Sputnik |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
|
<dl> </dl> |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
|
--- |
- - - |
| remove DokuWiki | remove BrainKeeper | remove PBwiki | remove Sputnik |