CanvasWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. Wiki CSharp .NET vs. WikyBlog vs. XWiki

General Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Version
1.2.101
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
1.1.7
0.4.2
1.5.4
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (19 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-05 (1 month 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)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Josh Schmidt
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
GPL
GPL
Public Domain
GPL V3
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
ColdFusion
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
N/A
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Private, small and big team
Private, Internet Communities
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, *BSD
Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any that supports basic CGI.
Apache, anything with PHP
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
MySQL
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Access, SQL Server
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
diffs
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 MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
No
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
0
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
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
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
None
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Usability CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Statistics CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Output CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
No
Contents
Extras CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki MediaWiki TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikyBlog XWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
[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://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= headline =
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bolded'''
*Bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italic_
''italicized''
=Italic=
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
_Underline_
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
monospaced.
[|Monospace formate|]
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-Strike-
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
[$Image file$]
[[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>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:Block-quoted text.
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
-list1
--list2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
#list1
##list2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
___
----
----
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