KeheiWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. BrainKeeper

General Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Version
Pleiades-M45
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.67
N/A
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
Author
team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
N/A
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
Any
Anyone
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Operating System
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
N/A
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
various opt. helpers
N/A
Datastorage KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Yes
N/A
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
N/A
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
No
Development/Support KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
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
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Links KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, templates, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Output KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>striked through</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>above</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>below</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
# list
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Term:<def>
def
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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