Wala Wiki vs. ikiwiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. PukiWiki

General Features Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Version
1.1.7
2.67
N/A
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2026-03-14 (3 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
N/A
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
BrainKeeper, Inc.
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
Public Domain
GPL
N/A
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Anyone
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
One theme, one PukiWiki
Hosting Features Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
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 Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Any
N/A
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Any, or none
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
N/A
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
No
No
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
N/A
No
Oracle
No
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
Yes
N/A
No
Other
diffs
N/A
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
N/A
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Unknown
Patch
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
N/A
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Links Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Features Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki ikiwiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[internal]]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[link text](http://example.org)
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
= headline =
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
'''bolded'''
**bold**
__bold__
''bold''
Italics Format
''italicized''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
'''italic'''
Underline Format
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
monospaced.
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
N/A
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
N/A
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Three
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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