KeheiWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. PmWiki

General Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Version
Pleiades-M45
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.67
N/A
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
N/A
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
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)
2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
Author
team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL
N/A
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Perl
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
corporate and special interest groups
Any
Anyone
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
All
Hosting Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Operating System
Unix/Linux
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
various opt. helpers
N/A
none
Datastorage KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
No
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
No
SQLite
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Yes
No
N/A
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
N/A
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Apache
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
N/A
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
Development/Support KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Preview
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scripting
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins, templates, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Output KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples KeheiWiki PhpWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PmWiki
Internal Link
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[internal]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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)
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
''italic''
Underline Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
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
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<strike>striked through</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sup>above</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
<sub>below</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
'_subscript_'
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)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Term:<def>
def
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
----
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