TiddlyWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. MediaWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Version
5.1.21
N/A
1.32.2
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2019-07-25 (6 years ago)
N/A
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
Author
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
N/A
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
HTML, JavaScript
N/A
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Files
N/A
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individuals, private, small groups
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
End Users/Desktop, Education
corporate and special interest groups
Hosting Features TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
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 TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
Any
N/A
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
Not required (optional backends available)
N/A
Any with PHP support
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
A common browser
N/A
none
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
Optional
N/A
No
Yes
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
N/A
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
N/A
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
Plugin
RCS
No
N/A
No
Plugin
Other
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
N/A
No
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
optional extensions available
N/A
Yes
Apache
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
8587 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Japanese
1
English
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
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
No
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Optional
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Output TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Keywords
Extras TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TiddlyWiki BrainKeeper MediaWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The 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
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
''bold''
'''bold'''
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term : definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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