XWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features XWiki ProntoWiki
Version
18.8.0
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2026-09-29 (17 days ago)
2026-10-16 (today)
Last Update here
2026-09-30 (16 days ago)
2006-08-23 (20 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
Java
C#
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features XWiki ProntoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
System Requirements XWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Windows
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage XWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
No
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Yes
Unknown
Oracle
Yes
Unknown
SQLite
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
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
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
No
Special Features XWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
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
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Links XWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Optional
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability XWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics XWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output XWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Unknown
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Extras XWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki ProntoWiki
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)
[pagename]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
{title|url}
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__under__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
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
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
+
++
+++
++++
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
#
##
###
####
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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