giewiki vs. MoasdaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Version
1.13.1
3.9.1
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
Herbert Reiter
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
AGPL-3.0-only
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
Java
Java
Data Storage
other
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
personal usage, small teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
Built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
Java VM 17+
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
App Engine
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
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, 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
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Links giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
No
Yes
Syntax Features giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Usability giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Statistics giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples giewiki MoasdaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
[[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://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
!Headline
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''Bald''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italy//
##italic##
//Italics//
Underline Format
__Undertow__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
@@monospace font@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
~~striked through~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
,,subscript,,
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
{{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 text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
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 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: description
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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