ikiwiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. PukiWiki

General Features ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Version
2.67
N/A
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
N/A
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
BrainKeeper, Inc.
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Anyone
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
One theme, one PukiWiki
Hosting Features ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Operating System
Any
N/A
OS independent
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Any, or none
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
N/A
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
No
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
Yes
N/A
No
Other
N/A
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
N/A
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
No
Links ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
CamelCase
Plugin
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Features ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Internal Link
[[internal]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[link text](http://example.org)
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
'''italic'''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
N/A
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
N/A
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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