PhpWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. XoWiki

General Features PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
6.2.1
N/A
0.113
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-03-03 (3 months ago)
N/A
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-04-25 (2 months ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
WackoWiki Team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL
BSD
N/A
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
N/A
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Hosting Features PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
N/A
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Yes
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
N/A
AOLServer
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
mod_rewrite (optional)
N/A
Datastorage PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
N/A
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
N/A
No
RCS
Yes
No
N/A
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
MariaDB
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
N/A
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Unknown
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
N/A
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
55 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Patch
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Patch
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
actions (PHP)
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Statistics PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki WackoWiki BrainKeeper XoWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[ 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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# list
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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