PukiWiki vs. WikiASP vs. XWiki

General Features PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Version
1.5.1
1.6.2
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
ASP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
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
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Operating System
OS independent
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
No
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Unknown
Yes
Oracle
No
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
MS Access DB
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 PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
0
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
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
No
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Links PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Unknown
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Unknown
Plugin
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Patch
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Unknown
Yes
Output PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Patch
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Raw Export
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
No
Unknown
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
No
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples PukiWiki WikiASP XWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord
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://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''bold''
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold**
Italics Format
'''italic'''
''The quotation''
//Italics//
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
N/A
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
_This is Strike Through_
--Strike--
Superscript Format
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
N/A
,,subscript,,
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
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:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* Test
* Bullets
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
:term|definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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