| General Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
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1.13.1
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1.1.7
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1.6.2
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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)
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2026-03-05 (1 month ago)
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2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
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2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
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2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
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2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
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2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
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2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
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| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Poul Staugaard
|
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
|
Elrey Ronald V.
|
XWiki Development Team
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| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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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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Public Domain
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FREE
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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
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Perl
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ASP
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Java
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| Data Storage |
Database
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other
|
Files
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Database
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Database, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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Free
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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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Beta
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
community/personal
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Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
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Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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| Hosting Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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No
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| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
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Windows/Mac/Linux
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Linux, *BSD
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Windows
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Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
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Google App Engine or SDK
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Any that supports basic CGI.
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IIS
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Servlet 5.0+
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| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
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Python 2.5
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Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
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Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
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Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
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No
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Yes
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Unknown
|
No
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| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
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No
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Unknown
|
Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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| Oracle |
Unknown
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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| SQLite |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Unknown
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No
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| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
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No
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Unknown
|
No
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| RCS |
Unknown
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Plugin
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| Other |
Access, SQL Server
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App Engine
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diffs
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MS Access DB
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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 | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Google accounts
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None; Wala does not authenticate users.
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XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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| Host Blocking |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
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| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
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No
|
No
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
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To current
|
No
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Between all
|
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Special Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Interface Languages |
0
|
1
English |
1
English |
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
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Comments |
Threaded
|
Flat
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Threaded
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| Categories |
Unknown
|
Unknown
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Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
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No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
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| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
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Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Not available
|
Full Text
|
||
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Links | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
None
|
Optional
|
All
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
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| Scripting |
JavaScript
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
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| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
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| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
|
| Extras | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | giewiki | Wala Wiki | WikiASP | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
TiddlyWiki [[Style library|StyleLib]] [[Plugins|/Plugins]] |
LinkDump, [link dump] |
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://p1k3.com/ p1k3] |
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
|
!Headline |
= headline = |
==Headline1 ===Headline2 ====Headline3 =====Headline4 |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
|
''Bald'' |
'''bolded''' |
'''BoldFormat'''
{bold}BoldFormat{/b} |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
|
//Italy// |
''italicized'' |
''The quotation'' |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
__Undertow__ |
|
|
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
{{{Courier}}} |
monospaced. |
<space char here>This is mono |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--Sorry-- |
|
_This is Strike Through_ |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
|
256^^2^^ |
|
|
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
Sub~~script~~ |
|
|
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>> (Args: file [alignment] [width%]) |
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include. |
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 |
|
|
|
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
:Block-quoted text. |
>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 |
* Bullet point * Bullet point |
* Test * Bullets |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# One # Two |
# One # Two # Three |
1. Test Numeer 1. Test Two |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : description |
|
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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