EditMe vs. PodWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. TracWiki

General Features EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Version
N/A
0.9.1
N/A
0.11.5
Last Release Date
N/A
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
N/A
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (16 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
Thomas Linden
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
N/A
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
N/A
Perl
N/A
Python
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
GPL / none
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Beta
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
average to advanced users
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Software development teams
Hosting Features EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Operating System
N/A
Unix
N/A
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
apache
N/A
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
N/A
mod_rewrite optional
N/A
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Other
N/A
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
N/A
0
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
builtin
N/A
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
1
English
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Links EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
No
No
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
BBCode Support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript
Perl
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
No
Usability EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples EditMe PodWiki BrainKeeper TracWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
L<http://www.daemon.de>
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
=head1 The Weather
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
B<bold>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
I<italics>
''italic''
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
via html only
__underline__
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
put a space in front of monospaced text
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
via html only
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
via html only
^superscript^
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
via html only
,,subscript,,
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
G<logo.png>
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
via stylesheet only
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
via stylesheet only
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
via html only
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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