ButorWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. XWiki

General Features ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Version
2.2.1
1.5.11c
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2007-03-09 (19 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2007-07-30 (18 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Aiman Sawan
Ryan Norton
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
C++
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
NA
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SMB
End users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Operating System
Any platform that can run Java 1.4+
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any webserver
built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Tomcat 4.1 +
None
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None
unknown
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Special Features ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Unicode Support
No
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Optional
No
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Optional
No
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
Internal Macros
no
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Usability ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
No
Statistics ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
No
Yes
Output ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Optional
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples ButorWiki wxWikiServer XWiki
Internal Link
<a href="..."></a>
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
<a href="..."></a>
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
<h1>Header 1</h1>
<h2>Header 2</h2>
...
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
''' bold text '''
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italics</i>
'' italic text ''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
] centred text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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