ikiwiki vs. Bloomfire

General Features ikiwiki Bloomfire
Version
2.67
N/A
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2012-04-12 (14 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
Bloomfire, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
Perl
N/A
Data Storage
Files, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
$5/user/month
Development status
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Anyone
Internal wiki or company wiki for teams and companies of all sizes. Enterprise to SMB to small product team and everything in between.
Hosting Features ikiwiki Bloomfire
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Unknown
Ads allowed
N/A
No
System Requirements ikiwiki Bloomfire
Operating System
Any
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
Webserver
Any, or none
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Datastorage ikiwiki Bloomfire
Text Files
Yes
N/A
MySQL
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Oracle
No
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
RCS
Yes
N/A
Other
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki Bloomfire
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
N/A
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Development/Support ikiwiki Bloomfire
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki Bloomfire
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Unknown
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki Bloomfire
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Links ikiwiki Bloomfire
CamelCase
Plugin
Unknown
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ikiwiki Bloomfire
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Unknown
FAQ Tags
Yes
Unknown
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Plugin
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Usability ikiwiki Bloomfire
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Unknown
Toolbar
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
Statistics ikiwiki Bloomfire
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Output ikiwiki Bloomfire
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Unknown
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki Bloomfire
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Unknown
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras ikiwiki Bloomfire
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki Bloomfire
Internal Link
[[internal]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
Text Indentation
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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Any number > 3
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spaces don't matter
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