| General Features | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.0.045
|
18.7.0
|
0.9.1
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| Last Release Date |
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
|
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
|
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
|
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
|
2007-02-13 (19 years ago)
|
| Author |
Helmut Leitner
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Thomas Linden
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
|
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
GPL
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| Programming Language |
Perl
|
Java
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database, RCS
|
Files, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
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GPL / none
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| 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
|
average to advanced users
|
| Hosting Features | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| 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 | PodWiki |
| Operating System |
Unix / Linux
|
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
Unix
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
apache
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
mod_rewrite optional
|
| Datastorage | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| 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
|
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| 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
|
builtin
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#49
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| 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
|
No
|
| Comments |
No
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Perl
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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
|
No
|
| Extras | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ProWiki | XWiki | PodWiki |
| 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) |
POD: L<Sandbox> L<Link Description|Sandbox> Creole: [[Sandbox]] [[Sandbox|Link Description]] BBcode: [url]Sandbox[/url] [url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url] |
| External Link |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
L<http://www.daemon.de> |
| Headlines |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
=head1 The Weather |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
B<bold> |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//Italics// |
I<italics> |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
via html only |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
put a space in front of monospaced text |
| Strikethrough Format |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
--Strike-- |
via html only |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>text</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
via html only |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>text</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
via html only |
| 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 |
G<logo.png> |
| Aligning Text |
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
via stylesheet only |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line :: indented line |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
via stylesheet only |
| Bulleted Lists |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
* List ** list *** list |
=over =item* listitem =back |
| Numbered Lists |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
=over =item 1. listitem =back |
| Definition Lists |
; term: definition |
; term : definition |
via html only |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove ProWiki | remove XWiki | remove PodWiki |