CanvasWiki vs. giewiki vs. TWiki vs. WikiASP vs. XWiki

General Features CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Version
1.2.101
1.13.1
TWiki-6.1.0
1.6.2
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Poul Staugaard
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
new BSD License
GPL
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
ColdFusion
Python
Perl, JavaScript
ASP
Java
Data Storage
Database
other
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
community/personal
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Google App Engine or SDK
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
Python 2.5
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Other
Access, SQL Server
App Engine
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
MS Access DB
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 CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Interface Languages
0
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
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
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Toolbar
Unknown
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Output CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki giewiki TWiki WikiASP XWiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
!Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''Bald''
*bold*
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italy//
_italic_
''The quotation''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__Undertow__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
_This is Strike Through_
--Strike--
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
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 1.1
* Item 2
* Test
* Bullets
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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---
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