ButorWiki vs. Zwiki vs. PhpWiki

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