CanvasWiki vs. giewiki vs. Wiki CSharp .NET vs. XWiki

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

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* One
* Two
-list1
--list2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
#list1
##list2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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