Oddmuse vs. BrainKeeper vs. Sputnik vs. ikiwiki

General Features Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Version
2.3.13
N/A
8.08.13
2.67
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
N/A
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Yuri Takhteyev
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
MIT/X
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
N/A
Lua
Perl
Data Storage
Files
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Small teams or private users
Anyone
Hosting Features Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
N/A
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
Any
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
N/A
Apache, CGI, Xavante
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
N/A
gcc or Lua
Datastorage Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
N/A
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
No
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
No
N/A
No
Yes
Other
No
N/A
Git
Security/Anti-Spam Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
N/A
Yes
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
No
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
89 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Plugin
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Features Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Perl
Lua, JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Statistics Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
No
Output Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Optional
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse BrainKeeper Sputnik ikiwiki
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
[[Sputnik]]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org)
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
# Sputnik
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
no example known
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
> Sputnik
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* Sputnik
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Sputnik
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
----
- - -
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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