BrainKeeper vs. ErfurtWiki vs. PodWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. bLADE Wiki vs. TracWiki

General Features BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Version
N/A
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
0.9.1
1.9.11
3.4.9
0.11.5
Last Release Date
N/A
2005-06-16 (21 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2010-04-04 (16 years ago)
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
2020-11-08 (5 years ago)
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Thomas Linden
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
Dale Lane
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
N/A
Public Domain (!)
GPL
GPL
N/A
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl
Python
C#
Python
Data Storage
N/A
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
GPL / none
0
Free
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
small + medium sites, development teams
average to advanced users
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
Software development teams
Hosting Features BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Operating System
N/A
any
Unix
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Windows, Windows Mobile
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
anything with PHP support
apache
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
N/A
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
N/A
none
mod_rewrite optional
None
.NET 2 Framework
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Text Files
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Plugin
No
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Other
N/A
no
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
No
0
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
builtin
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
No
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
No
No
No
Development/Support BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
#49
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Patch
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
1
English
1
English
0
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Links BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
Scripting
optional
Perl
plugins, see comment ---------------->
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Usability BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
No
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Statistics BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Optional
No
No
Unknown
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
No
Extras BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper ErfurtWiki PodWiki MoinMoin bLADE Wiki TracWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
POD:
L<Sandbox>
L<Link Description|Sandbox>

Creole:
[[Sandbox]]
[[Sandbox|Link Description]]

BBcode:
[url]Sandbox[/url]
[url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
[Link to a page]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
L<http://www.daemon.de>
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
[http://www.linkme.com]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
=head1 The Weather
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
+Heading
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
B<bold>
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold text*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''ialic text''
I<italics>
''italic''
''emphasised''
=italic text=
''italic''
Underline Format
optional or via css
via html only
__underline__
_underlined text_
__underline__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
put a space in front of monospaced text
`monospaced`
[|code sample|]
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
via html only
--(strikethrough)--
-strikethrough text-
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
via html only
^superscript^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
optional or via css
via html only
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
G<logo.png>
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
[$image.jpg$]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
optional or via css
via stylesheet only
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
via stylesheet only
indented text
> blockquote text
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
=over

=item* listitem

=back
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- bulleted
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

=over

=item 1. listitem

=back
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# numbered
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
via html only
term:: definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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