Git-Wiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Version
1.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Data Storage
RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Operating System
*nix
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Ruby
none
Datastorage Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Other
Git
No
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
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
Email notification
No
Optional
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Links Git-Wiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Usability Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Optional
Output Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Extras Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{Image.png}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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