ProWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. BrainKeeper

General Features ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Version
2.0.045
2.67
Pleiades-M45
N/A
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL
N/A
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl
N/A
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Anyone
corporate and special interest groups
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No Restrictions
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Any
Unix/Linux
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Any, or none
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
N/A
Other Requirements
none
perl 4 or newer
N/A
Datastorage ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
No
Plugin
N/A
Oracle
No
No
Plugin
N/A
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
N/A
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
N/A
Other
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Apache
N/A
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
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
N/A
Common Features ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
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
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
1
English
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Output ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[internal]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
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
Definition Lists
; term: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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