| General Features | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
8.08.13
|
N/A
|
5.1.21
|
1.32.2
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
Yuri Takhteyev
|
BrainKeeper, Inc.
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
MIT/X
|
N/A
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
Lua
|
N/A
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
N/A
|
Files
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Small teams or private users
|
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| Hosting Features | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No Restrictions
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
N/A
|
Any
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
N/A
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
|
N/A
|
A common browser
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Git
|
N/A
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
No
|
None
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
N/A
|
optional extensions available
|
Yes
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
8587 ⭐
|
N/A
|
4606 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
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
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
1
English |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
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
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Lua, JavaScript
|
JavaScript
|
Optional
|
Optional, PHP
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Sputnik | BrainKeeper | TiddlyWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Sputnik]] |
|
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
|
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
# Sputnik |
|
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
|
''bold'' |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
|
//italic// |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
|
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
|
{{{monospaced}}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
|
--strikethrough-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
|
|
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
|
~~subscript~~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
|
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
<center>Centered</center> |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
> Sputnik |
|
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
: indented line |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Sputnik |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Sputnik |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
; term : description |
; term : definition |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
- - - |
|
---- |
---- |
---- |
| remove Sputnik | remove BrainKeeper | remove TiddlyWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove DokuWiki |