LionWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. BrainKeeper

General Features LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Version
3.2.4
2.67
N/A
Last Release Date
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
Author
Adam Živnéř
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPL v2
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
N/A
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
advanced users, minimalists
Anyone
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Operating System
All PHP supported
Any
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Any, or none
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Datastorage LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Text Files
Yes
Yes
N/A
MySQL
No
No
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
Oracle
No
No
N/A
SQLite
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
Yes
N/A
Other
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
N/A
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
CamelCase
No
Plugin
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
No
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples LionWiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper
Internal Link
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[path_to_img.jpg]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
Text Indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
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
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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