| General Features | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.3.0.0
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1.0
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1.5.11c
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1.13.1
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18.5.0
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| Last Release Date |
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
|
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
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2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
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2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
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2026-06-29 (17 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
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2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
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2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
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2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
|
2026-06-29 (17 days ago)
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| Author |
J.W. Davidson
|
David Jobet
|
Ryan Norton
|
Poul Staugaard
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Apache License 2.0
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GPL2
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wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
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new BSD License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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| Programming Language |
C#
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PHP
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C++
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Python
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Java
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| Data Storage |
Database, Files
|
Database
|
Files
|
other
|
Database, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
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0
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NA
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
small organization to enterprise
|
private users
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End users/Desktop
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community/personal
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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| Hosting Features | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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No
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| System Requirements | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows
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All
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MS Windows/Mac/Linux
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Windows/Mac/Linux
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Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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| Root Access |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
IIS7 or IIS8
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Apache
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built-in
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Google App Engine or SDK
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
| Other Requirements |
IronPython
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MySql
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None
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Python 2.5
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Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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| Datastorage | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Oracle |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| SQLite |
Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
|
No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Plugin
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| Other |
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
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App Engine
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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
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| Security/Anti-Spam | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
MS Membership and Roles
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unknown
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Google accounts
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Mail Encryption |
No
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Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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No
|
No
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No
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Yes
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| Development/Support | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
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Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian |
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 |
| Email notification |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
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| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
None
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Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
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Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Links | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
IronPython
|
Not at the moment
|
no
|
JavaScript
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
No
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | LynxWiki | Wiclear | wxWikiServer | giewiki | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
[Title] |
CamelCase [AnotherLink goto alink] |
TiddlyWiki [[Style library|StyleLib]] [[Plugins|/Plugins]] |
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://www.wikimatrix.org "Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org "this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com |
[Title|http://url.to/] |
http://www.powerslave.com [http://www.external.com xternallink] |
http://appengine.google.com [[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 6 |
!title1 !!title2 !!!title3 |
= heading = == heading == === heading === (up to 5 = signs). |
!Headline |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
*bold* '''bold''' |
__bold__ |
''' bold text ''' |
''Bald'' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
'' italic text '' |
//Italy// |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
+underlined+ |
|
|
__Undertow__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces and it will be pre formatted |
start line with blank space. |
{{{Courier}}} |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
|
|
--Sorry-- |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
superscript^234^ |
|
|
256^^2^^ |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
water: H~2~O |
|
|
Sub~~script~~ |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100)) |
ilocal://icon.jpg img:icon.jpg img:http://www.external/image.jpg |
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>> (Args: file [alignment] [width%]) |
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 |
N/A |
|
] centred text |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
|
> single indent >> two indents >>> more indenting |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
*item1 *item2 **item21 **item22 *item3 |
* one * two * two.1 |
* One * Two |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
#item1 ##item1.1 ##item1.2 #item2 #item3 |
1 item one 2 item two Or: # item 1 ## item 1.1 # item two |
# One # Two |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
N/A |
;def1 : the complete definition of def1 ;def2 : the complete definition of def2 |
|
; term : description |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
|
|
---- |
---- |
| remove LynxWiki | remove Wiclear | remove wxWikiServer | remove giewiki | remove XWiki |