giewiki vs. GWiki vs. Hatta vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Version
1.13.1
2.4.0
1.6.6
1.32.2
18.2.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2018-06-15 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2018-10-16 (7 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
Roger Rene Kommer
Radomir Dopieralski
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
Apache License, Version 2.0
GPL v2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
Python
Java
Python
PHP
Java
Python
Data Storage
other
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
All Java Servlet Container, included
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
Java 1.8+
Mercurial
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
App Engine
Google Datastore
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
No
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
Internal and external with adapter
n/a
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
7 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, English
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
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
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
None
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
JavaScript
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
JavaScript
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
Output giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples giewiki GWiki Hatta MediaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
[[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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
[http://example.com]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
!Headline
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''Bald''
*Bold Format*
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italy//
_Italic format_
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__Undertow__
+Unterlined+
n/a
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
{{Monospace}}
{{{verbatim}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
-StrikeThrough-
n/a
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
^Superscript^
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
~Subscript~
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
[[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
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
n/a
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
n/a
: indented line
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 2
-- Sub Item
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: description
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
n/a
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
----
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