| General Features | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.2.101
|
1.0.1
|
16.2.0
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
0.113
|
1.32.2
|
| Last Release Date |
2006-06-14 (17 years ago)
|
2024-04-25 (1 day ago)
|
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (15 years ago)
|
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
|
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2009-03-13 (15 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
Raymond Camden
|
Clay Alberty
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | ||||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Apache
|
BSD
|
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
GPL 2
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
ColdFusion
|
C#
|
Java
|
PHP
|
XOTcl and Tcl
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, RCS
|
Files
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
Free
|
0
|
0
|
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
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
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
|
| Hosting Features | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| 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
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS
|
IIS 5+
|
Servlet 3.1+
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
AOLServer
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
|
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
none
|
||
| Datastorage | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
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
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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)
|
Yes
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Development/Support | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||||
| Mailing List | ||||||
| Support Forum | ||||||
| Chat Channel | ||||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
||
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| 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 |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
| Email notification |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
No
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
|
| Categories |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|||
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
Some
|
|
| Math formulas |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
none
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Optional, PHP
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
||
| Content Includes |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
|||
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
||
| Extras | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | DokuWiki | XoWiki | MediaWiki |
| 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]] |
|
[[a link]] [[a link|with 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]] |
|
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
|
!, !!, !!! |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
|
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
|
''italics'' |
//Italics// |
//italics// |
|
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__under__ |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
|
##monospace## |
''monospace'' |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
--Strike-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
|
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<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}} |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
available through custom tags |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
Plugin |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
|
multiple spaces -> |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
N/A |
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| Bulleted Lists |
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* List ** list *** list |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
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* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
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# ## ### #### |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
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# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
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; term : definition |
Plugin |
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; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove CanvasWiki | remove ProntoWiki | remove XWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove XoWiki | remove MediaWiki |