WiGit vs. BrainKeeper vs. PhpWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Version
0.1
N/A
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.67
Last Release Date
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
N/A
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Remko Tronçon
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
other
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
0
Development status
Beta
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Any
Anyone
Hosting Features WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
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 WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Git
N/A
various opt. helpers
Datastorage WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Yes
No
Oracle
No
N/A
Yes
No
SQLite
No
N/A
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
Yes
No
RCS
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
Other
Git repositories
N/A
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
No
No
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Links WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Patch
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Output WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[InternalLink]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[internal]]
External Link
"External link":http://externallink.com
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
h1. Headline
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
*Bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
_Italics_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
+underlined+
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
@monospace@
<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
-strikethrough-
<strike>striked through</strike>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>below</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
!image.jpg!
[ 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
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
>Right-aligned
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
# 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
remove WiGit remove BrainKeeper remove PhpWiki remove ikiwiki