MyInfo vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiASP

General Features MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Version
7.1
1.45.3
18.6.0
1.6.2
Last Release Date
2021-05-25 (5 years ago)
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
2026-07-27 (3 days ago)
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-06-03 (5 years ago)
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
Author
Milenix Software Ltd.
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Elrey Ronald V.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
FREE
Programming Language
C++
PHP
Java
ASP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$99.95 (USD)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Personal, small companies, researchers, writers, students, teachers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Hosting Features MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
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 MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Operating System
Windows 7 or newer
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Not needed
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
IIS
Other Requirements
Not needed
none
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Datastorage MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Text Files
No
No
No
Unknown
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Unknown
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
Proprietary file format
No
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
MS Access DB
Security/Anti-Spam MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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
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Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
No
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
HTML Tags
None
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
None
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Output MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples MyInfo MediaWiki XWiki WikiASP
Internal Link
Visual editing
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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
External Link
Visual editing
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
Headlines
Visual editing
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
Bold Format
Visual editing
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
Italics Format
Visual editing
''italic''
//Italics//
''The quotation''
Underline Format
Visual editing
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
Visual editing
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
<space char here>This is mono
Strikethrough Format
Visual editing
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
_This is Strike Through_
Superscript Format
Visual editing
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Visual editing
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
Visual editing
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
Aligning Text
Visual editing
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Visual editing
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Bulleted Lists
Visual editing
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Test
* Bullets
Numbered Lists
Visual editing
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

Definition Lists
Visual editing
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
Visual editing
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