WikiASP vs. Wikidot vs. XWiki

General Features WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Version
1.6.2
18.4.1
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-06-15 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2026-06-16 (4 days ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
Michal Frackowiak
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
AGPLv3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
ASP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
no limit
Other Limits
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
Topic Restrictions
N/A
by Terms Of Service
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Unknown
No
MySQL
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
Unknown
No
RCS
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Other
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 WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Development/Support WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Special Features WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
2
English, Polish
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
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Yes
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
None
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Output WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
No
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples WikiASP Wikidot XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
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
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
+++ headline level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold text**
**bold**
Italics Format
''The quotation''
//italic text//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
{{monospaced text}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
--strikethrough text--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
[[image src="..."]]
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
= Centered line
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* element 1
* element 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

# element 1
# element 1
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
: item : description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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