Git-Wiki vs. Zim vs. ButorWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Version
1.0
0.56
2.2.1
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2022-04-17 (4 years ago)
2012-07-16 (13 years ago)
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
Aiman Sawan
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
Ruby
Python
Java
PHP
Data Storage
RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Public
Private users, small teams
SMB
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
*nix
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
None
Any webserver
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Ruby
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Tomcat 4.1 +
none
Datastorage Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
Git
Text Files with index in SQLite
No
Security/Anti-Spam Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Plugin system, backends can be added
File permissions
None
Yes
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
No
No
Unknown
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
242 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
4
Czech, German, English, French
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
No
No
Optional
Optional
Comments
No
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Links Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
None
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Quoting
No
No
No
No
Internal Comments
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
XML based, Javascript
None
Internal Macros
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Usability Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
Statistics Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Output Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Unknown
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Keywords
Keywords
Extras Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Git-Wiki Zim ButorWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
<a href="..."></a>
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[http://example.org|The title]]
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
<a href="..."></a>
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== Section ==
=== Subsection ===
==== Sub-subsection ====
=== Heading ===
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
<b>Bold</b>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic//
//italic//
<i>Italics</i>
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
<u>Underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
``monospace``
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~strike~~
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^{sup}
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
_{sub}
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{Image.png}}
{{./image.png}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
not implemented
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
not implemented
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
not implemented
----
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