XWiki vs. Friki vs. WikiASP

General Features XWiki Friki WikiASP
Version
18.6.0
2.1.1
1.6.2
Last Release Date
2026-07-27 (3 days ago)
2004-05-14 (22 years ago)
2005-10-13 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
2006-08-26 (19 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Frank Carver
Elrey Ronald V.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
ASL or LGPL
FREE
Programming Language
Java
Java
ASP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
private users and small teams
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Hosting Features XWiki Friki WikiASP
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Friki WikiASP
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Any that can run or call Java
IIS
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Java 1.3 or later
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Datastorage XWiki Friki WikiASP
Text Files
No
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
No
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Unknown
Oracle
Yes
No
Unknown
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
No
Unknown
Other
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
MS Access DB
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Friki WikiASP
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support XWiki Friki WikiASP
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Friki WikiASP
Preview
Yes
No
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Special Features XWiki Friki WikiASP
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
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
0
Email notification
Yes
No
No
Comments
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links XWiki Friki WikiASP
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Optional
No
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki Friki WikiASP
HTML Tags
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Optional
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Optional
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Unknown
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Usability XWiki Friki WikiASP
Section Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics XWiki Friki WikiASP
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Unknown
Output XWiki Friki WikiASP
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Patch
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
No
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
No
Unknown
XML export
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
No
Unknown
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Friki WikiASP
File Attachments
Yes
No
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras XWiki Friki WikiASP
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Friki WikiASP
Internal Link
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)
WikiWord
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold''
'''BoldFormat'''

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

image:local:icon.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:        indented
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* first
* second
* Test
* Bullets
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. first
1. second
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

Definition Lists
; term
: definition
title:        description
Horizontal Rule
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