Wala Wiki vs. ikiwiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. BrainKeeper

General Features Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Version
1.1.7
2.67
Pleiades-M45
N/A
Last Release Date
2026-03-14 (3 months ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
Author
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
Public Domain
GPL
LGPL
N/A
Programming Language
Perl
Perl
Perl
N/A
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Anyone
corporate and special interest groups
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Hosting Features Wala Wiki 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 Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Operating System
Linux, *BSD
Any
Unix/Linux
N/A
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Any that supports basic CGI.
Any, or none
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
N/A
Other Requirements
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
perl 4 or newer
N/A
Datastorage Wala Wiki 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
No
Yes
Plugin
N/A
Other
diffs
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
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
Apache
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
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 Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Preview
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
1
English
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
CamelCase
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
No
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
No
Tables
simple
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
No
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
No
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
No
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
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
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 Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Output Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
File Attachments
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wala Wiki ikiwiki KeheiWiki BrainKeeper
Internal Link
LinkDump, [link dump]
[[internal]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[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 =
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
:Block-quoted text.
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
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
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
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
remove Wala Wiki remove ikiwiki remove KeheiWiki remove BrainKeeper