| General Features | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
2.3.13
|
N/A
|
8.08.13
|
2.67
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
|
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (28 days ago)
|
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
|
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
|
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Alex Schroeder
|
BrainKeeper, Inc.
|
Yuri Takhteyev
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL 2
|
GPL
|
N/A
|
MIT/X
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Perl
|
N/A
|
Lua
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Files
|
N/A
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
free
|
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
family people, hackers
|
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
|
Small teams or private users
|
Anyone
|
| Hosting Features | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No Restrictions
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Anything supported by Perl
|
N/A
|
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Anything supporting CGI scripts
|
N/A
|
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
Any, or none
|
| Other Requirements |
Writable data directory
|
N/A
|
gcc or Lua
|
||
| Datastorage | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
None
|
No
|
N/A
|
Git
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
None (use your web server instead)
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
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| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
4600 ⭐
|
89 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Age
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| 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 |
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Some
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
Perl
|
Lua, JavaScript
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | Oddmuse | BrainKeeper | Sputnik | ikiwiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
optional, default on: [[page name]] optional, default off: PageName [PageName] → [1] [[[page name]]] → [1] [PageName text] → text [[page name|text]] → text Depending on plugins: [text](page) → text |
|
[[Sputnik]] |
[[internal]] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
|
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
[link text](http://example.org) |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
|
# Sputnik |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
|
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
**bold** __bold__ |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
|
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
|
|
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
|
|
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
|
|
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
|
|
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
|
|
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants  |
|
|
  |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
no example known |
|
|
|
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
|
> Sputnik |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* one ** two |
|
* Sputnik |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
|
1. Sputnik |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
|
|
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
|
- - - |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
| remove DokuWiki | remove Oddmuse | remove BrainKeeper | remove Sputnik | remove ikiwiki |