ProWiki vs. XWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Version
2.0.045
18.9.0
2.67
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (20 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
2008-10-17 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
2008-10-28 (18 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
XWiki Development Team
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Anyone
Hosting Features ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Servlet 5.0+
Any, or none
Other Requirements
none
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other
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 ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Links ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki XWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
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)
[[internal]]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--Strike--
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
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
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
; term: definition
; term
: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove ProWiki remove XWiki remove ikiwiki