WikiASP vs. XWiki vs. wxWikiServer

General Features WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
Version
1.6.2
18.5.0
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
ASP
Java
C++
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
NA
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End users/Desktop
Hosting Features WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
built-in
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
No
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
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 wxWikiServer
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
unknown
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
Development/Support WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Special Features WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
Optional
All
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
no
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Unknown
Statistics WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
No
Output WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
File Attachments
No
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiASP XWiki wxWikiServer
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)
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
''The quotation''
//Italics//
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
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
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
] centred text
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* List
** list
*** list
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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