XoWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. PhpWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Version
0.113
N/A
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.67
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
N/A
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
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
BSD
N/A
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
N/A
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Any
Anyone
Hosting Features XoWiki 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 XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
N/A
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
Yes
N/A
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
N/A
various opt. helpers
Datastorage XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
SQLite
No
N/A
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
Yes
No
RCS
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
Other
N/A
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
N/A
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Patch
Unknown
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support XoWiki 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 XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Links XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
Yes
plugins, templates, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Output XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras XoWiki 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 XoWiki BrainKeeper PhpWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<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://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
<?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
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# 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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