| General Features | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
8.08.13
|
N/A
|
5.0.0.1
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
|
2019-02-19 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
Yuri Takhteyev
|
BrainKeeper, Inc.
|
Eduardo Mauro
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT/X
|
N/A
|
Commercial
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
Lua
|
N/A
|
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
N/A
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
|
39,95
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small teams or private users
|
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
|
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| Hosting Features | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| 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 | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
N/A
|
Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
N/A
|
No need
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
|
N/A
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Git
|
N/A
|
Firebird
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No need
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
|||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
4606 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
1
English |
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Lua, JavaScript
|
Yes
|
Optional, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | ConnectedText | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Sputnik]] |
|
[[wiki page]] [[wiki page|Title]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
|
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]] [[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
# Sputnik |
|
= Head1 = == Head 2 == === Head 3 ==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
|
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
|
//italic// |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
|
__Underline__ |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
|
{{{Monospace}}} |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
|
--Strikethrough-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
|
|
^^Superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
|
vvSubscriptvv |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
|
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
~~Centered text~~ |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
> Sputnik |
|
: First level of indenting :: Second level |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Sputnik |
|
* First item * Seconditem |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Sputnik |
|
1. First item 1. Second item |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
;Term:Definition |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
- - - |
|
---- |
---- |
| remove Sputnik | remove BrainKeeper | remove ConnectedText | remove DokuWiki |