| General Features | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
|
8.08.13
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
N/A
|
Pleiades-M45
|
| Last Release Date |
N/A
|
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
|
N/A
|
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
|
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (7 days ago)
|
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
|
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
|
| Author |
PBworks
|
Yuri Takhteyev
|
Andreas Gohr
|
BrainKeeper, Inc.
|
team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| License |
N/A
|
MIT/X
|
GPL 2
|
N/A
|
LGPL
|
| Programming Language |
N/A
|
Lua
|
PHP
|
N/A
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
N/A
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files
|
N/A
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Determined by Solution Needs
|
0
|
0
|
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
|
0
|
| Development status |
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Business Enterprises
|
Small teams or private users
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
|
corporate and special interest groups
|
| Hosting Features | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Storage Quota |
No limit
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
No limit
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No Restrictions
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
N/A
|
Unix/Linux
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
N/A
|
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
gcc or Lua
|
N/A
|
perl 4 or newer
|
|
| Datastorage | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
N/A
|
Git
|
None
|
N/A
|
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
N/A
|
Apache
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
4593 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Javascript
|
Lua, JavaScript
|
Optional, PHP
|
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
|
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PBwiki | Sputnik | DokuWiki | BrainKeeper | KeheiWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
[[Sputnik]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
|
%topic% ( '%' configurable ) or <link topic>text</link> or use HTML in rich text editor |
| External Link |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
|
http://gmail.com/ or <extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern> or use HTML in rich text editor |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
# Sputnik |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
|
text ---- or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
**bold** |
|
_ text _ or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
//italics// |
|
* text * or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
|
__underlined__ |
|
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Monospace Format |
<code>monospace</code> |
|
''monospace'' |
|
<wiki code> stuff </wiki code> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Images |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
|
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Aligning Text |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
|
Plugin |
|
<p align=right> stuff or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Text Indentation |
Indented block |
> Sputnik |
N/A |
|
<ul> stuff </ul> or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
* Sputnik |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
|
* text or <!> text or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Numbered Lists |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
1. Sputnik |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
|
digits. stuff or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Definition Lists |
<dl> </dl> |
|
Plugin |
|
term: definition or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
- - - |
---- |
|
can use plain < HR > tag or via WYSIWYG editor |
| remove PBwiki | remove Sputnik | remove DokuWiki | remove BrainKeeper | remove KeheiWiki |