iKnow - a tiny wiki vs. LionWiki vs. Wiki CSharp .NET vs. XWiki

General Features iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Version
1.2
3.2.4
0.4.2
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2011-02-10 (15 years ago)
2010-09-20 (15 years ago)
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2011-02-11 (15 years ago)
2010-10-01 (15 years ago)
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
CodeBrewery
Adam Živnéř
Pier-Luc Duchaine
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
GPL v2
GPL V3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
ASP.Net MVC 3 (C# with Razor view engine)
PHP
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone in need of a (really) tiny wiki or a internal knowledge database
advanced users, minimalists
Private, small and big team
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET 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 iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 +
All PHP supported
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 7.0 +
Apache/IIS, probably everything which supports PHP
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
ASP.Net MVC 3, WebMatrix
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
Microsoft 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
Security/Anti-Spam iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
OpenID
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
17
Arabic, Czech, German, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Links iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript (plugin)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Usability iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Statistics iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Analysis
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Output iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Unknown
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Raw Export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
XML export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
File Attachments
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Calendar
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples iKnow - a tiny wiki LionWiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]]
[Main page]
[Our main page|Main page]
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
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
<a href="http://www.google.ch">ExternalLink</a>
http://lionwiki.0o.cz
[Homepage|http://lionwiki.0o.cz]
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
<h1>Headline</h1>
!H2 headline
!!H3 headline
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
'''bold''
*Bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
<i>Italic</i>
''italics''
=Italic=
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
'__underline__'
_Underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
[|Monospace formate|]
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
'--strikethrough--'
-Strike-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
[path_to_img.jpg]
[$Image file$]
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Fruit
** Apple
*** Granny smith
*** Golden delicious
** Orange
* Vegetables
** Garlic
** Onion
-list1
--list2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# First item 
## First subitem 
### First subsubitem
## Second subitem 
# Second item
#list1
##list2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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