| General Features | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.5.11c
|
N/A
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
5.0.0.1
|
N/A
|
| Last Release Date |
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
|
N/A
|
|
| Last Update here |
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
|
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
|
2019-02-19 (7 years ago)
|
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Ryan Norton
|
BrainKeeper, Inc.
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Eduardo Mauro
|
PBworks
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
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Yes
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No
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N/A
|
| License |
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
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N/A
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GPL 2
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Commercial
|
N/A
|
| Programming Language |
C++
|
N/A
|
PHP
|
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
|
N/A
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
N/A
|
Files
|
Database
|
N/A
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
NA
|
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
|
0
|
39,95
|
Determined by Solution Needs
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
N/A
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Mature
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Mature
|
N/A
|
| Intended Audience |
End users/Desktop
|
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
|
Business Enterprises
|
| Hosting Features | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No limit
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No limit
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
N/A
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None
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No Restrictions
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
None
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| System Requirements | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Operating System |
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
|
N/A
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows
|
N/A
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Webserver |
built-in
|
N/A
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
No need
|
N/A
|
| Other Requirements |
None
|
N/A
|
none
|
N/A
|
|
| Datastorage | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| MySQL |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Oracle |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| SQLite |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| RCS |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Other |
N/A
|
None
|
Firebird
|
N/A
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
unknown
|
N/A
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
No need
|
N/A
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
4606 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
1
English |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese |
1
English |
| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
no
|
Optional, PHP
|
Yes
|
Javascript
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | wxWikiServer | BrainKeeper | DokuWiki | ConnectedText | PBwiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase [AnotherLink goto alink] |
|
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[wiki page]] [[wiki page|Title]] |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
| External Link |
http://www.powerslave.com [http://www.external.com xternallink] |
|
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]] [[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]] |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
| Headlines |
= heading = == heading == === heading === (up to 5 = signs). |
|
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
= Head1 = == Head 2 == === Head 3 ==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
''' bold text ''' |
|
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
'' italic text '' |
|
//italics// |
//italic// |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
|
|
__underlined__ |
__Underline__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
start line with blank space. |
|
''monospace'' |
{{{Monospace}}} |
<code>monospace</code> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--Strikethrough-- |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
|
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^Superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvSubscriptvv |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
ilocal://icon.jpg img:icon.jpg img:http://www.external/image.jpg |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]] |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
] centred text |
|
Plugin |
~~Centered text~~ |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
| Text Indentation |
> single indent >> two indents >>> more indenting |
|
N/A |
: First level of indenting :: Second level |
Indented block |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one * two * two.1 |
|
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* First item * Seconditem |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
| Numbered Lists |
1 item one 2 item two Or: # item 1 ## item 1.1 # item two |
|
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. First item 1. Second item |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
|
Plugin |
;Term:Definition |
<dl> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
|
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