Git-Wiki vs. MediaWiki vs. UseMod

General Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
Version
1.0
1.45.3
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2026-06-03 (10 days ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
Operating System
*nix
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Any with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Ruby
none
Datastorage Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
Git
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Patch
Blacklist
No
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
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
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
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
0
Email notification
No
Optional
Unknown
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
No
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Unknown
Links Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
Optional
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Usability Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
No
Output Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Unknown
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki MediaWiki UseMod
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====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{Image.png}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
N/A
Text Indentation
: indented line
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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