LynxWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. XWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Version
1.3.0.0
1.5.11c
18.5.0
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (17 days ago)
2026-05-16 (2 months ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (17 days ago)
2026-05-16 (2 months ago)
Author
J.W. Davidson
Ryan Norton
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
Programming Language
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
NA
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small organization to enterprise
End users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Hosting Features LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
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 LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Windows
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS7 or IIS8
built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
IronPython
None
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
unknown
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
# 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
N/A
Common Features LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Optional
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
No
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
IronPython
no
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Output LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Media and Files LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
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)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
''' bold text '''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_
'' italic text ''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
start line with blank space.
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
Images
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
N/A
] centred text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
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
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* one
* two
* two.1
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. first numbered item
1. second item
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
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
N/A
; term
: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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