ButorWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Version
2.2.1
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2007-03-08 (17 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (16 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
System Requirements ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
none
Datastorage ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
None
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Optional
Optional
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Internal Macros
Optional, PHP
Optional
Content Includes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Usability ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Output ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Keywords
Extras ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ButorWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
N/A
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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