Pwic.wiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Foswiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

General Features Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Version
1.2
17.10.0
6.1.29
2.1.9
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
Last Release Date
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
2025-11-24 (11 days ago)
2025-09-03 (3 months ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
2025-11-25 (10 days ago)
2025-10-13 (1 month ago)
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2024-04-01 (1 year ago)
Author
Team Pwic.wiki
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Foswiki Community
Tiki Software Community Association
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
GPL
LGPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, IT consultancy, Software development, Small to medium companies
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Hosting Features Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
OS Independent
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Stand-alone (Python aiohttp)
Servlet 5.0+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Works on standard shared hosting
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
None
Datastorage Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Yes
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
MariaDB
caching of content into database using plugins
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Salted password, OAuth2 (Google, Microsoft, Github), 2FA TOTP
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
18 ⭐
N/A
54 ⭐
116 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
3
German, English, French
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
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, 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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
External API for automation and bots
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Content Includes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Optional
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
Media and Files Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Forums
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
Syntax Examples Pwic.wiki XWiki WackoWiki Foswiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Internal Link
[Paragraph](#p_1_1)
[Page](/project/page)
[Attachment](/special/document/1)
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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
External Link
[Link](https://pwic.wiki/en)
<https://pwic.wiki/en>
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
Headlines
# Title 1
## Title 2
### Title 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
*italics*
//Italics//
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
--underline--
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
===underline===
Monospace Format
`keyword`

```python
print('Block of code')
```
##monospace##
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
-+monospace+-
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strike--
Superscript Format
x<sup>2</sup> (trick)
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
Subscript Format
x<sub>2</sub> (trick)
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
Images
![Caption](/special/document/1 "Image").
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
::centered text::
Text Indentation
> Block line 1
> Block line 2
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
one
two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
leading spaces, if activated.
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
---
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