| General Features | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
18.5.0
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1.5.11c
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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1.13.1
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| Last Release Date |
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
|
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
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2011-07-21 (15 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
|
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
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2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
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2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
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| Author |
XWiki Development Team
|
Ryan Norton
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Poul Staugaard
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
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GPL 2
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new BSD License
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| Programming Language |
Java
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C++
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PHP
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Python
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| Data Storage |
Database, RCS
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Files
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Files
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other
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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NA
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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End users/Desktop
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personal, small to medium companies
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community/personal
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| Hosting Features | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
No
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| Operating System |
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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MS Windows/Mac/Linux
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Windows/Mac/Linux
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Servlet 5.0+
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built-in
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Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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Google App Engine or SDK
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| Other Requirements |
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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None
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Python 2.5
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| Datastorage | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| Text Files |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| MySQL |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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| Oracle |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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| SQLite |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
Plugin
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No
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No
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No
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| 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
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None
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App Engine
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| Security/Anti-Spam | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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unknown
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Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Google accounts
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| Host Blocking |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Yes
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No
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Optional
|
Yes
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| nofollow |
No
|
No
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Optional
|
No
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| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
|
No
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Optional
|
No
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| Development/Support | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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4691 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
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| 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 |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
|
Page Locking
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Page Locking
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| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Links | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
no
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Optional, PHP
|
JavaScript
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | XWiki | wxWikiServer | DokuWiki | giewiki |
| 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) |
CamelCase [AnotherLink goto alink] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
TiddlyWiki [[Style library|StyleLib]] [[Plugins|/Plugins]] |
| External Link |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
http://www.powerslave.com [http://www.external.com xternallink] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://appengine.google.com [[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]] |
| Headlines |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
= heading = == heading == === heading === (up to 5 = signs). |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
!Headline |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
''' bold text ''' |
**bold** |
''Bald'' |
| Italics Format |
//Italics// |
'' italic text '' |
//italics// |
//Italy// |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
|
__underlined__ |
__Undertow__ |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
start line with blank space. |
''monospace'' |
{{{Courier}}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
--Strike-- |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--Sorry-- |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
256^^2^^ |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Sub~~script~~ |
| 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 |
ilocal://icon.jpg img:icon.jpg img:http://www.external/image.jpg |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>> (Args: file [alignment] [width%]) |
| Aligning Text |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
] centred text |
Plugin |
|
| Text Indentation |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
> single indent >> two indents >>> more indenting |
N/A |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* List ** list *** list |
* one * two * two.1 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* One * Two |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
1 item one 2 item two Or: # item 1 ## item 1.1 # item two |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# One # Two |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
Plugin |
; term : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove XWiki | remove wxWikiServer | remove DokuWiki | remove giewiki |