WikiASP vs. XWiki vs. Wikidot vs. WikyBlog

General Features WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Version
1.6.2
18.7.0
1.5.4
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-08-31 (12 days ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (20 years ago)
2026-08-31 (12 days ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2007-10-24 (18 years ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
Michal Frackowiak
Josh Schmidt
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
ASP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Private, Internet Communities
Hosting Features WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Storage Quota
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
Yes
N/A
System Requirements WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, anything with PHP
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
MySQL
Datastorage WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Text Files
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
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 XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
No
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
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
2
English, Polish
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
No
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Output WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
No
No
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
No
Extras WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiASP XWiki Wikidot WikyBlog
Internal Link
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)
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
+++ headline level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold**
**bold text**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''The quotation''
//Italics//
//italic text//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined text__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
{{monospaced text}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
--Strike--
--strikethrough text--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
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
[[image src="..."]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
= Centered line
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* List
** list
*** list
* element 1
* element 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# element 1
# element 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
: item : description
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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