ProWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
Version
2.0.045
18.7.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
XWiki Development Team
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
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database
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
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
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 WikiNi
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
none
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
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 WikiNi
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
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
# 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 WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
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
French
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
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 WikiNi
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
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
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Patch
Usability ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras ProWiki XWiki WikiNi
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 WikiNi
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)
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[ ]]
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
** **
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
// //
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__ __
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
## ##
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--Strike--
@@ @@
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
,,subscript,,
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
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
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* List
** list
*** list
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
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