XWiki vs. giewiki vs. MoasdaWiki

General Features XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
Version
18.5.0
1.13.1
3.9.1
Last Release Date
2026-06-29 (17 days ago)
2011-07-21 (14 years ago)
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-29 (17 days ago)
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Poul Staugaard
Herbert Reiter
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
new BSD License
AGPL-3.0-only
Programming Language
Java
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database, RCS
other
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
community/personal
personal usage, small teams
Hosting Features XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
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 giewiki MoasdaWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Google App Engine or SDK
Built-in
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Python 2.5
Java VM 17+
Datastorage XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
No
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
App Engine
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Google accounts
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
# 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 giewiki MoasdaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
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
1
English
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Links XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
No
Syntax Features XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Usability XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Statistics XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
No
Media and Files XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples XWiki giewiki MoasdaWiki
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)
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!Headline
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
Bold Format
**bold**
''Bald''
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italics//
//Italy//
##italic##
Underline Format
__underline__
__Undertow__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{{Courier}}}
@@monospace font@@
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--Sorry--
~~striked through~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
256^^2^^
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Sub~~script~~
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
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
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
{{image:wiki.png}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{{center}}centered text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* One
* Two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# One
# Two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term
: description
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
Horizontal Rule
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