CanvasWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Wiki-Toolkit vs. MojoMojo

General Features CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
Version
1.2.101
16.2.0
1.32.2
0.72
1.02
Last Release Date
2006-06-14 (17 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2006-08-30 (17 years ago)
2010-08-29 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-09-01 (15 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2006-12-05 (17 years ago)
2010-09-01 (13 years ago)
Author
Raymond Camden
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Dominic Hargreaves
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL/Artistic
Artistic License
Programming Language
ColdFusion
Java
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
FREE
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Mildly technical
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Wiki Developers
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
Hosting Features CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
Operating System
Windows, Linux, Solaris
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Anything that runs Perl
Any OS that runs Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Anything with CGI support
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Other Requirements
ColdFusion MX
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Catalyst
Datastorage CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Other
Access, SQL Server
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Plugin Interface
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
Preview
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Interface Languages
0
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
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
0
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Links CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Links
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Usability CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Statistics CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Output CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
File Attachments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples CanvasWiki XWiki MediaWiki Wiki-Toolkit MojoMojo
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[another page]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
_italics_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Textile: ^superscript^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Textile: ~subscript~
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:wiki.png]]
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Textile:
> text
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* an item
* another item
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# item 1
# item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
Horizontal Rule
----
----
<hr />
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