Introduction

 

This is a comparison of the features available in the free wiki packages available from PeanutButterWiki and Schtuff.com.

 

Limits

 

	PeanutButterWiki	Schtuff.com
Number of pages	Unlimited?	Unlimited?
Disk space	10MB	200MB
Bandwidth	Unlimited	Unlimited?
Number of wikis per user	Unlimited	3

 

Winner: Schtuff.com, due to larger space limit.

 

Editing

 

Note neither PeanutButterWiki nor Schtuff.com have a WYSIWYG editor, so all editing is done via plain text and special characters for formatting (wiki-markup). This table indicates the features supported by each interface

 

	PeanutButterWiki	Schtuff.com
Preview	Yes	Yes
Spellchecker	No	Yes
Headings and sub-headings	Yes - start the line with a number of exclamation marks	Yes - start and end the line with a number of equals signs
Automatic table of contents	Yes, using <toc>	No
Bold text	Yes, using **bold text** syntax	Yes, using *bold text* syntax
Italic text	Yes, using ''italic text'' syntax	Yes, using /italic text/ syntax
Underlined text	Yes, using __underlined text__ syntax	Yes, using _underlined text_ syntax
Strikethrough text	Yes, using -strikethrough text- syntax	Yes, using -strikethrough text- syntax
Horizontal rule	No, but can insert a <hr /> tag easily enough	Yes, using --- syntax (three hyphens)
Bulleted list	Yes, begin the line with an asterisk (*)	Yes, begin the line with an asterisk (*)
Numbered list	Yes, begin the line with a hash (#)	Yes, begin the line with a hash (#)
Multi-level bulleted or numbered list	Begin the line with multiple asterisks or hashes, number of characters indicates the level	Add spaces before the hash or asterisk, number of spaces indicates the level
Inline boxed text	Yes, surround the text with vertical bars (|)	No
Block-level boxed text	Yes, begin each line in the box with a space	No
Tables	Yes, insert vertical bars (|) to mark the vertical borders of each cell	No

 

Winner: PeanutButterWiki, due to automatic table of contents and more advanced formatting features.

 

Hyperlinks

 

	PeanutButterWiki	Schtuff.com
Auto hyperlinking of http:// URLS	Yes	Yes
Auto hyperlinking of WikiWords	Yes	No
Internal links	Yes, using WikiWords	Yes, using [page_name] syntax
Internal pretty links	Yes, using [page_name|display text] syntax	Yes, using [page_name|display text] syntax
External pretty links	Yes, using [http://website.com|display text] syntax	Yes, using [http://website.com|display text] syntax

 

Winner: PeanutButterWiki, due to support for WikiWords

 

Uploading files and pictures

 

	PeanutButterWiki	Schtuff.com
Uploading	File upload form allows files to be uploaded 5 at a time	File upload window allows files to be uploaded one after another
File types	All	All
Displaying pictures from your wiki	Enter full URL of picture in square brackets, e.g. [http://mywiki.pbwiki.com]	Surround image file name with curly brackets, e.g. {my-image.jpg} or {my-image.jpg|alternative text} to include alternative text
Displaying pictures from elsewhere on the web	Enter full URL of picture in square brackets, e.g. [http://mywiki.pbwiki.com]	Insert an IMG HTML tag

 

Winner: Schtuff.com, due to shorter syntax for internal images. But only just

 

CSS

 

Cascading Style Sheets - this is how the look and feel of a web site is controlled

 

	PeanutButterWiki	Schtuff.com
Pre-defined styles	3	7
CSS editing	No	No

 

Winner: Schtuff.com, just.

 

Custom navigation elements

 

	PeanutButterWiki	Schtuff.com
	Create a page called SideBar and it will appear as a navigation element on all your pages. Page can contain any content you want.	Sidebar contains various useful links common to all wikis and you can add links yourself

 

Winner: draw

 

Access control

 

	PeanutButterWiki	Schtuff.com
Granularity of access control	Whole wiki	Individual pages
Password control	One password per wiki	Each user has own password, can be invited to become an editor of many different wikis
Levels of permission	Make entire wiki public or private	Grant or deny users permission to view / edit / delete / view comments / add comments / change permissions

 

Winner: Schtuff.com, due to much finer access control, multi-user collaboration each with their own password.

 

Backups

 

	PeanutButterWiki	Schtuff.com
Downloadable zip file	Yes	Yes
Zip file name	backup.zip	wikinameYYYYMMDD.zip

 

Winner: Schtuff.com, due to datestamped file name.

 

Subscribing to updates

 

	PeanutButterWiki	Schtuff.com
E-mail notification	No	Each time a page is changed
RSS feed	Feed of changes across entire wiki	Feed of changes across entire wiki

 

Winner: Schtuff.com, but only due to presence of e-mail updates (which could quickly become too much!)

 

Tagging

 

	PeanutButterWiki	Schtuff.com
	No tagging support	Supports tagging

 

Winner: Schtuff.com, but only if you want to use tags