ButorWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Version
2.2.1
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
various opt. helpers
Datastorage ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
Unknown
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Patch
Development/Support ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Optional
Yes
No
Namespaces
Optional
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Links ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Optional
Scripting
Internal Macros
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Usability ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
No
Output ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Extras ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ButorWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</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
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
Numbered Lists
# list
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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