giewiki vs. XWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. DokuWiki vs. CanvasWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Version
1.13.1
18.6.0
1.5.11c
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
1.2.101
6.3.0
Last Release Date
2011-07-21 (15 years ago)
2026-07-27 (2 days ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
2006-06-15 (20 years ago)
2026-07-18 (11 days ago)
Last Update here
2011-08-14 (14 years ago)
2026-07-28 (1 day ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
2008-09-01 (17 years ago)
2026-07-18 (11 days ago)
Author
Poul Staugaard
XWiki Development Team
Ryan Norton
Andreas Gohr
Raymond Camden
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
new BSD License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL 2
Apache
BSD
Programming Language
Python
Java
C++
PHP
ColdFusion
PHP
Data Storage
other
Database, RCS
Files
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
NA
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
community/personal
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End users/Desktop
personal, small to medium companies
Mildly technical
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows, Linux, Solaris
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Google App Engine or SDK
Servlet 5.0+
built-in
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Python 2.5
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
ColdFusion MX
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
No
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Other
App Engine
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
Access, SQL Server
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Google accounts
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
unknown
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
No
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Development/Support giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
4693 ⭐
N/A
55 ⭐
Common Features giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
0
34
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Links giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
no
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Usability giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Statistics giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Output giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples giewiki XWiki wxWikiServer DokuWiki CanvasWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
TiddlyWiki
[[Style library|StyleLib]]
[[Plugins|/Plugins]]
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]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
http://appengine.google.com
[[AppEngine|http://appengine.google.com]]
[[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]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
!Headline
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
''Bald''
**bold**
''' bold text '''
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italy//
//Italics//
'' italic text ''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__Undertow__
__underline__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{Courier}}}
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Sorry--
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
256^^2^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Sub~~script~~
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
<<image /Solnedgang.jpg < 60%>>
(Args: file [alignment] [width%])
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.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
] centred text
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
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
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* One
* Two
* List
** list
*** list
* one
* two
* two.1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# One
# Two
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
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
; term
: description
; term
: definition
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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