MediaWiki vs. ButorWiki

General Features MediaWiki ButorWiki
Version
1.32.2
2.2.1
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2007-03-09 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Aiman Sawan
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
SMB
System Requirements MediaWiki ButorWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Any webserver
Other Requirements
none
Tomcat 4.1 +
Datastorage MediaWiki ButorWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
No
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki ButorWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
None
Host Blocking
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki ButorWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki ButorWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Special Features MediaWiki ButorWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Links MediaWiki ButorWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki ButorWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Optional
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
Optional
Internal Macros
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Usability MediaWiki ButorWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki ButorWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Unknown
Analysis
Optional
Unknown
Output MediaWiki ButorWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki ButorWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Optional
Embedded Video
Plugin
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Keywords
Extras MediaWiki ButorWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki ButorWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
<a href="..."></a>
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
<a href="..."></a>
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
Bold Format
'''bold'''
<b>Bold</b>
Italics Format
''italic''
<i>Italics</i>
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>Underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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