TWiki vs. Wala Wiki vs. Wiki CSharp .NET vs. WikiASP vs. XWiki

General Features TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
1.1.7
0.4.2
1.6.2
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2026-03-05 (1 month ago)
2009-12-31 (16 years ago)
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2007-03-28 (19 years ago)
2010-04-07 (15 years ago)
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
Pier-Luc Duchaine
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Public Domain
GPL V3
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
C# (Full), PHP (Viewer)
ASP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Pre-Alpha
Beta
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
Private, small and big team
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
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
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Linux, *BSD
Windows
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any that supports basic CGI.
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
diffs
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 TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
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 TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Preview
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
No
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Special Features TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
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
Unknown
No
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Not available
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Unknown
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Statistics TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Output TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Unknown
Patch
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
Extras TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples TWiki Wala Wiki Wiki CSharp .NET WikiASP XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
LinkDump, [link dump]
[Internal]
[[Internal][Displayed text]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3]
[http://...]
[[http://...][Displayed text]]
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= headline =
+Header1
++Header2
+++Header3
++++Header4
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bolded'''
*Bold*
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
''italicized''
=Italic=
''The quotation''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
_Underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
monospaced.
[|Monospace formate|]
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-Strike-
_This is Strike Through_
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include.
[$Image file$]
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
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
:Block-quoted text.
>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
* Bullet point
* Bullet point
-list1
--list2
* Test
* Bullets
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# One
# Two
# Three
#list1
##list2
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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