| General Features | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
|
1.0.1
|
16.3.0
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
0.113
|
| Last Release Date |
2006-06-14 (17 years ago)
|
2024-05-06 (1 day ago)
|
2024-04-29 (8 days ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (15 years ago)
|
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
|
2024-04-30 (7 days ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2009-03-13 (15 years ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Clay Alberty
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache
|
BSD
|
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
GPL 2
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
|
C#
|
Java
|
PHP
|
XOTcl and Tcl
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
Free
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
large and small organizations as well as individuals
|
|
| Hosting Features | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
|
Windows
|
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
IIS 5+
|
Servlet 3.1+
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
AOLServer
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
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| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Access, SQL Server
|
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
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
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
.NET Membership platform
|
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
||
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
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 |
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 |
3
German, English, Spanish |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
|||
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Tables |
none
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Optional, PHP
|
Yes
|
||
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
|||
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
||
| Extras | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki |
| Internal Link |
|
[pagename] |
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) |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
|
| External Link |
|
{title|url} |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
|
| Headlines |
|
!, !!, !!! |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
|
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
|
| Italics Format |
|
''italics'' |
//Italics// |
//italics// |
|
| Underline Format |
|
__under__ |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
|
| Monospace Format |
|
|
##monospace## |
''monospace'' |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
--Strike-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
| Superscript Format |
|
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
|
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
|
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
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 |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
|
| Aligning Text |
|
available through custom tags |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
Plugin |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
multiple spaces -> |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
N/A |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
|
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* List ** list *** list |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
|
# ## ### #### |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
|
|
; term : definition |
Plugin |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
|
|
---- |
---- |
|
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