Pwic.wiki vs. Wiki.js vs. Foswiki vs. XWiki

General Features Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Version
1.2
2.5.299
2.1.11
18.2.1
Last Release Date
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
2026-04-09 (19 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2026-03-15 (1 month ago)
2026-04-09 (19 days ago)
Author
Team Pwic.wiki
Nicolas Giard
Foswiki Community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
AGPL-v3
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
Javascript
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, other, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, IT consultancy, Software development, Small to medium companies
Everyone
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
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
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS
All
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Stand-alone (Python aiohttp)
All
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Node.js
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
caching of content into database using plugins
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 Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Salted password, OAuth2 (Google, Microsoft, Github), 2FA TOTP
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
18 ⭐
28237 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
3
German, English, French
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Yes
Links Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Patch
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
All
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
External API for automation and bots
JS, CSS
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Media and Files Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Calendar
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
No
No
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Pwic.wiki Wiki.js Foswiki XWiki
Internal Link
[Paragraph](#p_1_1)
[Page](/project/page)
[Attachment](/special/document/1)
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
[Link](https://pwic.wiki/en)
<https://pwic.wiki/en>
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
# Title 1
## Title 2
### Title 3
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**Bold Text**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
*italics*
*Italic Text*
_italic_
//Italics//
Underline Format
--underline--
<u>Underline Text</u>
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`keyword`

```python
print('Block of code')
```
`Monospace Code`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
~~Strikethrough Text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
x<sup>2</sup> (trick)
^Superscript Text^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
x<sub>2</sub> (trick)
~Subscript Text~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
![Caption](/special/document/1 "Image").
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.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
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> Block line 1
> Block line 2
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
---
---
----
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