giewiki vs. TWiki vs. WikyBlog vs. XWiki

General Features giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Version
1.13.1
TWiki-6.1.0
1.5.4
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Josh Schmidt
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
other
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Private, Internet Communities
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features giewiki TWiki WikyBlog 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 giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, anything with PHP
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
MySQL
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
App Engine
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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 TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
No
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Usability giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Yes
Output giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Contents
Extras giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples giewiki TWiki WikyBlog XWiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][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)
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
!Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''Bald''
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italy//
_italic_
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__Undertow__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: 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 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: description
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
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