LynxWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
1.3.0.0
1.5.11c
18.5.0
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2013-08-02 (12 years ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-29 (12 years ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
J.W. Davidson
Ryan Norton
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
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
BSD
Programming Language
C#
C++
Java
HTML, JavaScript
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
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features LynxWiki 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 LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS7 or IIS8
built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
IronPython
None
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Datastorage LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
Yes
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
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
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
No
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support LynxWiki 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 LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
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
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features LynxWiki 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
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
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 TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Yes
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
IronPython
no
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Statistics LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Output LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
No
Extras LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
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
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples LynxWiki wxWikiServer XWiki TiddlyWiki
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)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
''' bold text '''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
_italics_
'' italic text ''
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
start line with blank space.
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
N/A
] centred text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
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
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
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
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
Definition Lists
N/A
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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