Instiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiASP

General Features Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Version
0.30.0
16.3.1
1.6.2
Last Release Date
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2024-05-09 (5 days ago)
2005-10-12 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2024-05-13 (1 day ago)
2006-08-26 (17 years ago)
Author
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
XWiki Development Team
Elrey Ronald V.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Ruby's
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
FREE
Programming Language
Ruby on Rails
Java
ASP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
general, education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Hosting Features Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Servlet 3.1+
IIS
Other Requirements
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Datastorage Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Text Files
No
No
Unknown
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
SQLite
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
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
MS Access DB
Security/Anti-Spam Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support Instiki XWiki WikiASP
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
478 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Preview
No
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Special Features Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
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
0
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Comments
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Links Instiki XWiki WikiASP
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Instiki XWiki WikiASP
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
Yes
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Section Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Unknown
Output Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Patch
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Instiki XWiki WikiASP
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Calendar
No
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Instiki XWiki WikiASP
Internal Link
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
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)
WikiWord
External Link
[another site](http://example.com)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
Headlines
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
Italics Format
_italic_, *italic*
//Italics//
''The quotation''
Underline Format
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
__underline__
Monospace Format
`monospace`
##monospace##
<space char here>This is mono
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
--Strike--
_This is Strike Through_
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
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:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
Aligning Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Test
* Bullets
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

Definition Lists
term
: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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