MediaWiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. Wiki CSharp .NET vs. XWiki

General Features MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Version
1.32.2
1.1.7
0.4.2
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-05 (1 month ago)
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Pier-Luc Duchaine
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Public Domain
GPL V3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Pre-Alpha
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Private, small and big team
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features MediaWiki Wala Wiki 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 MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, *BSD
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Any that supports basic CGI.
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
none
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Other
No
diffs
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 MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Development/Support MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
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 MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Preview
Yes
No
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
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
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Usability MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Statistics MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Analysis
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Output MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples MediaWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET XWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
[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
[http://example.org The title]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= headline =
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
'''bolded'''
*Bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
''italicized''
=Italic=
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
_Underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
monospaced.
[|Monospace formate|]
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
-Strike-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
[$Image file$]
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
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
:Block-quoted text.
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
-list1
--list2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
#list1
##list2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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