giewiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.13.1
1.5.11c
18.5.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2011-07-21 (15 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
Ryan Norton
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
Python
C++
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
other
Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
NA
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
End users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
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 giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
None
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Datastorage giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
App Engine
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
unknown
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
no
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Statistics giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Output giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Extras giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples giewiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
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)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
!Headline
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
''Bald''
''' bold text '''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italy//
'' italic text ''
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
__Undertow__
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
start line with blank space.
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
] centred text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
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
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* One
* Two
* one
* two
* two.1
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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