iKnow - a tiny wiki vs. GWiki vs. XWiki vs. XoWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. TWiki

General Features iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Version
1.2
2.4.0
16.2.0
0.113
1.0.1
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2011-02-09 (13 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
2024-04-19 (1 day ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2011-02-11 (13 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2024-03-25 (26 days ago)
2009-03-13 (15 years ago)
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
CodeBrewery
Roger Rene Kommer
XWiki Development Team
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Clay Alberty
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Apache License, Version 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
ASP.Net MVC 3 (C# with Razor view engine)
Java
Java
XOTcl and Tcl
C#
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Free
Free
N/A
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone in need of a (really) tiny wiki or a internal knowledge database
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
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 iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 +
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Webserver
IIS 7.0 +
All Java Servlet Container, included
Servlet 3.1+
AOLServer
IIS 5+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
ASP.Net MVC 3, WebMatrix
Java 1.8+
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Yes
Other
Microsoft SQL Server
Google Datastore
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
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
OpenID
Internal and external with adapter
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
.NET Membership platform
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Development/Support iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
1
English
2
German, 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
3
German, English, Spanish
1
English
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
No
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Structured Data
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Features iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Custom styles
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Usability iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Output iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples iKnow - a tiny wiki GWiki XWiki XoWiki ProntoWiki TWiki
Internal Link
[[InternalLink]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
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)
[pagename]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
<a href="http://www.google.ch">ExternalLink</a>
[http://example.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
{title|url}
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
<h1>Headline</h1>
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!, !!, !!!
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
<b>Bold</b>
*Bold Format*
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
<i>Italic</i>
_Italic format_
//Italics//
''italics''
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>Underline</u>
+Unterlined+
__underline__
__under__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{Monospace}}
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-StrikeThrough-
--Strike--
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^Superscript^
^^superscript^^
<<super>> (using custom tags)
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~Subscript~
,,subscript,,
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
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
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
available through custom tags
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* List
** list
*** list
+
++
+++
++++
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
#
##
###
####
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
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