WikiASP vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
Version
1.6.2
18.4.1
0.61
Last Release Date
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
2026-06-15 (5 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
2026-06-16 (4 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
ASP
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
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 Zwiki
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
Plugin
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Unknown
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
Unknown
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
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
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Development/Support WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
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
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Patch
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
No
Output WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras WikiASP XWiki Zwiki
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 Zwiki
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold**
Italics Format
''The quotation''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
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
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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

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