CanvasWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. XWiki vs. giewiki

General Features CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Version
1.2.101
1.5.11c
18.5.0
1.13.1
Last Release Date
2006-06-15 (20 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (17 days ago)
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (17 days ago)
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
Ryan Norton
XWiki Development Team
Poul Staugaard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
new BSD License
Programming Language
ColdFusion
C++
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
other
License Cost/ Fee
0
NA
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
End users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
community/personal
Hosting Features CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Google App Engine or SDK
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
None
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Python 2.5
Datastorage CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Other
Access, SQL Server
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
App Engine
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
unknown
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Google accounts
Host Blocking
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
No
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Development/Support CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Unicode Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
0
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
1
English
Email notification
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Links CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Features CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
no
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Usability CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Unknown
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Statistics CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Output CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
File Attachments
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki wxWikiServer XWiki giewiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
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)
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
External Link
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!Headline
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
**bold**
''Bald''
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
//Italics//
//Italy//
Underline Format
__underline__
__Undertow__
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
##monospace##
{{{Courier}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--Sorry--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
256^^2^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Sub~~script~~
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.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
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
Aligning Text
] centred text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* List
** list
*** list
* One
* Two
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# One
# Two
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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