SubWiki vs. MoasdaWiki vs. XWiki vs. ProWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Version
0.1-dev
3.9.1
18.6.0
2.0.045
2.67
Last Release Date
no official
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2026-07-27 (2 days ago)
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2026-07-28 (1 day ago)
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
Greg Stein
Herbert Reiter
XWiki Development Team
Helmut Leitner
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Academic Free License
AGPL-3.0-only
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
Java
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
RCS
Files
Database, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Alpha
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Anyone
Hosting Features SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Unix / Linux
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
Built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
No
No
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 SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, English
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
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
1
English
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
No
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Not available
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Links SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
none
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
None
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Yes
No
Statistics SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples SubWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki ProWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
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)
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
[[internal]]
External Link
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
##italic##
//Italics//
''italic''
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
N/A
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospaced}}
@@monospace font@@
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
N/A
~~striked through~~
--Strike--
[[strike]strikethrough text]
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
N/A
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
^^superscript^^
<sup>text</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
N/A
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
,,subscript,,
<sub>text</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
http://foo.bar/foo.gif
{{image:wiki.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
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
N/A
{{center}}centered text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
:: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
N/A
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
; term
: definition
; term: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove SubWiki remove MoasdaWiki remove XWiki remove ProWiki remove ikiwiki