LionWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. PukiWiki

General Features LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Version
3.2.4
2.67
Pleiades-M45
N/A
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
N/A
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Adam Živnéř
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPL
LGPL
N/A
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
advanced users, minimalists
Anyone
corporate and special interest groups
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
One theme, one PukiWiki
Hosting Features LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
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 LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Operating System
All PHP supported
Any
Unix/Linux
N/A
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Any, or none
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
perl 4 or newer
N/A
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
N/A
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
N/A
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
N/A
No
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
N/A
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Apache
N/A
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
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
N/A
N/A
Common Features LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
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
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Links LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Output LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples LionWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Internal Link
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
[[internal]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold''
**bold**
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''bold''
Italics Format
''italics''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''italic'''
Underline Format
'__underline__'
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
N/A
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Images
[path_to_img.jpg]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 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
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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