ButorWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Version
2.2.1
1.45.3
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2026-06-03 (17 days ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
End Users/Desktop, Education
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
none
Datastorage ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
Yes
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
140
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, 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
1
French
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Links ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
Scripting
Internal Macros
Optional
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Usability ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
No
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
No
Output ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Keywords
No
Extras ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ButorWiki MediaWiki WikiNi
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
[http://example.org The title]
[[ ]]
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
'''bold'''
** **
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
''italic''
// //
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__ __
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
## ##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
@@ @@
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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