MediaWiki vs. Git-Wiki

General Features MediaWiki Git-Wiki
Version
1.32.2
1.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2022-04-17 (3 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
MIT
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby
Data Storage
Database
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Private, Public
System Requirements MediaWiki Git-Wiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
*nix
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
none
Ruby
Datastorage MediaWiki Git-Wiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Other
No
Git
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features MediaWiki Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Git-Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
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
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Optional
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
No
Links MediaWiki Git-Wiki
CamelCase
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
Optional
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics MediaWiki Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
No
Output MediaWiki Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Extras MediaWiki Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Git-Wiki
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====
== Section
=== Subsection
==== Sub-subsection

or

== 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:wiki.png]]
{{Image.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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