LynxWiki vs. XWiki vs. TWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. Wiki on a Stick

General Features LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Version
1.3.0.0
16.3.1
TWiki-6.1.0
1.0.1
0.12.0
Last Release Date
2013-08-01 (10 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-05-18 (1 day ago)
2010-06-20 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-08-29 (10 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
2010-08-24 (13 years ago)
Author
J.W. Davidson
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Clay Alberty
legolas558
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
BSD
GPLv2
Programming Language
C#
Java
Perl, JavaScript
C#
JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small organization to enterprise
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Advanced End Users
Hosting Features LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
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 LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows
OS Independent (Browser Application)
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS7 or IIS8
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
IronPython
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
JavaScript-capable browser
Datastorage LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Other
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
Security/Anti-Spam LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
MS Membership and Roles
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
.NET Membership platform
Supports per-page AES encryption
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
No
Unknown
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
2
English, Italian
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
No
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Features LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Scripting
IronPython
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Usability LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
No
No
Statistics LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Output LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples LynxWiki XWiki TWiki ProntoWiki Wiki on a Stick
Internal Link
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
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 autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[pagename]
[[WoaS test page]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
{title|url}
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]]
Headlines
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!, !!, !!!
= Header 1
== Header 2
=== Header 3
Bold Format
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
*bold text*
Italics Format
_italics_
//Italics//
_italic_
''italics''
/italics text/
Underline Format
+underlined+
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__under__
_underlined text_
Monospace Format
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
##monospace##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}}
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
superscript^234^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
water: H~2~O
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
[[Image::woas.png]]
Aligning Text
N/A
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Bulleted Lists
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
+
++
+++
++++
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Numbered Lists
1. first numbered item
1. second item
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
#
##
###
####
* element 1
* element 2
* element 3
Definition Lists
N/A
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
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