wxWikiServer vs. giewiki vs. XWiki

General Features wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Version
1.5.11c
1.13.1
18.5.0
Last Release Date
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2026-06-29 (17 days ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2026-06-29 (17 days ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
Poul Staugaard
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
new BSD License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
C++
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
other
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
NA
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
community/personal
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features wxWikiServer giewiki 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 wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
built-in
Google App Engine or SDK
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
None
Python 2.5
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
App Engine
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 wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
unknown
Google accounts
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Links wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Features wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
no
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Usability wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
No
Statistics wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer giewiki XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
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://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
!Headline
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
''Bald''
**bold**
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
//Italy//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__Undertow__
__underline__
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
{{{Courier}}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
--Strike--
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
,,subscript,,
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
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
] centred text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* One
* Two
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
# One
# Two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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