TWiki vs. Wicked vs. XWiki

General Features TWiki Wicked XWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.0.8
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2017-09-21 (8 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-15 (7 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
The Horde Project
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features TWiki Wicked 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 TWiki Wicked XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage TWiki Wicked XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
None
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 Wicked XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
25 different backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Yes
Development/Support TWiki Wicked XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
1 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki Wicked XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features TWiki Wicked XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Links TWiki Wicked XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki Wicked XWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability TWiki Wicked XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Plugin
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics TWiki Wicked XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output TWiki Wicked XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files TWiki Wicked XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Extras TWiki Wicked XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples TWiki Wicked XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a 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)
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
@@+++ underline @@
__underline__
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
@@--- strikethrough @@
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
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>
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 one
* Sub-bullet
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
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