WiGit vs. BrainKeeper vs. PhpWiki vs. PBwiki

General Features WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
Version
0.1
N/A
phpwiki-1.3.14
N/A
Last Release Date
2008-07-21 (17 years ago)
N/A
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2009-07-09 (16 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
Author
Remko Tronçon
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
N/A
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
other
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
Beta
N/A
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Private users
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Any
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
System Requirements WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
Operating System
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
N/A
Other Requirements
Git
N/A
various opt. helpers
N/A
Datastorage WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
Oracle
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
RCS
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
Other
Git repositories
N/A
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
No
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Development/Support WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
No
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
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 PBwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
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
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
N/A
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Links WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Javascript
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
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
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WiGit BrainKeeper PhpWiki PBwiki
Internal Link
[InternalLink]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
"External link":http://externallink.com
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
h1. Headline
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
*Bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
_Italics_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
Underline Format
+underlined+
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
@monospace@
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<strike>striked through</strike>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
>Right-aligned
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
* Bulleted
* List
** Sublist
* list
or
- list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
# Numbered
# List
## Sublist
# list
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
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