| General Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
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1.13.1
|
1.32.2
|
0.4.2
|
1.5.4
|
18.2.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
|
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
|
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
|
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
|
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
|
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
|
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Poul Staugaard
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Pier-Luc Duchaine
|
Josh Schmidt
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache
|
new BSD License
|
GPL
|
GPL V3
|
GPL
|
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
|
Python
|
PHP
|
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
|
PHP
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
other
|
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
Database, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Pre-Alpha
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
community/personal
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Private, small and big team
|
Private, Internet Communities
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
| Hosting Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Windows/Mac/Linux
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Google App Engine or SDK
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, anything with PHP
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
Python 2.5
|
none
|
MySQL
|
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
|
| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
App Engine
|
No
|
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
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Google accounts
|
Yes
|
No
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
||
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Mailing List | ||||||
| Support Forum | ||||||
| Chat Channel | ||||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
None
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
No
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
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 |
1
English |
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese |
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 |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
||
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
||
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
||
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
All
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript
|
Optional
|
No
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
||
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
||
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Keywords
|
No
|
Contents
|
||
| Extras | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | giewiki | MediaWiki | Wiki CSharp .NET | WikyBlog | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
TiddlyWiki [[Style library|StyleLib]] [[Plugins|/Plugins]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[Internal] [[Internal][Displayed text]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
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 |
|
http://appengine.google.com [[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://...] [[http://...][Displayed text]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
|
!Headline |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
+Header1 ++Header2 +++Header3 ++++Header4 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
|
''Bald'' |
'''bold''' |
*Bold* |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
|
//Italy// |
''italic'' |
=Italic= |
''italic'' |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
__Undertow__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
_Underline_ |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
{{{Courier}}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
[|Monospace formate|] |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--Sorry-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-Strike- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
|
256^^2^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
Sub~~script~~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>> (Args: file [alignment] [width%]) |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[$Image file$] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
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 |
|
|
<center>Centered</center> |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
: indented line |
|
: indented line |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* One * Two |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
-list1 --list2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# One # Two |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
#list1 ##list2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : description |
; term : definition |
|
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
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