| General Features | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.1.7
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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2.67
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N/A
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| Last Release Date |
2026-03-14 (3 months ago)
|
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
N/A
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| Last Update here |
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
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2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
|
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
|
| Author |
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
BrainKeeper, Inc.
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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N/A
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| License |
Public Domain
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GPL
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GPL
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N/A
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| Programming Language |
Perl
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PHP
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Perl
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N/A
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| Data Storage |
Files
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Database, Files, RCS
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Files, RCS
|
N/A
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| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
|
0
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0
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from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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N/A
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| Intended Audience |
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
|
Any
|
Anyone
|
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
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| Hosting Features | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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Unlimited
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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Unlimited
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| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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None
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No Restrictions
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Operating System |
Linux, *BSD
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any
|
N/A
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
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| Webserver |
Any that supports basic CGI.
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Any, or none
|
N/A
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| Other Requirements |
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
|
various opt. helpers
|
N/A
|
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| Datastorage | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| MySQL |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
N/A
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
N/A
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| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
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| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
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| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Other |
diffs
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
N/A
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
N/A
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| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
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| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
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
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
1
English |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
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
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Links | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Syntax Features | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Scripting |
plugins, templates, PHP
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
||
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wala Wiki | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper |
| Internal Link |
LinkDump, [link dump] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[[internal]] |
|
| External Link |
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
|
| Headlines |
= headline = |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
|
| Bold Format |
'''bolded''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
**bold** __bold__ |
|
| Italics Format |
''italicized'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
|
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
|
| Monospace Format |
monospaced. |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<strike>striked through</strike> |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
|
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>above</sup> |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>below</sub> |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
|
| Images |
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include. |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] external image [Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] view uploaded image [Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] view and link to another image |
  |
|
| Aligning Text |
|
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
|
|
| Text Indentation |
:Block-quoted text. |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
|
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet point * Bullet point |
* list or - list |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# One # Two # Three |
# list |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
|
| Definition Lists |
|
Term:<def> def |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
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