| General Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
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1.13.1
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TWiki-6.1.0
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18.2.0
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| Last Release Date |
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
|
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
|
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
|
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
|
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Poul Staugaard
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
XWiki Development Team
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Apache
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new BSD License
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GPL
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
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Python
|
Perl, JavaScript
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Java
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| Data Storage |
Database
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other
|
Files, RCS
|
Database, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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N/A
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
community/personal
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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| Hosting Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Windows/Mac/Linux
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
Google App Engine or SDK
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
Python 2.5
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
App Engine
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
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 | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| 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
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
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 |
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
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
All
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
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
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
|
| Extras | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | giewiki | TWiki | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
TiddlyWiki [[Style library|StyleLib]] [[Plugins|/Plugins]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
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]] |
[[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 |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
|
''Bald'' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
|
//Italy// |
_italic_ |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
__Undertow__ |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
{{{Courier}}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--Sorry-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--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: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> |
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 |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# One # Two |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
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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