MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. GWiki vs. LynxWiki

General Features MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Version
1.32.2
16.3.1
2.4.0
1.3.0.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2013-08-01 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2013-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Roger Rene Kommer
J.W. Davidson
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License, Version 2.0
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
C#
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
small organization to enterprise
Hosting Features MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
All Java Servlet Container, included
IIS7 or IIS8
Other Requirements
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Java 1.8+
IronPython
Datastorage MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
No
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
Google Datastore
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal and external with adapter
MS Membership and Roles
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Development/Support MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
4 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
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
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
2
German, English
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
IronPython
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Statistics MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
No
No
Output MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki XWiki GWiki LynxWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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)
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.com]
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*Bold Format*
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
_Italic format_
_italics_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
+Unterlined+
+underlined+
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{Monospace}}
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
-StrikeThrough-
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^Superscript^
superscript^234^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~Subscript~
water: H~2~O
Images
[[Image:wiki.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
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. first numbered item
1. second item
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
N/A
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
remove MediaWiki remove XWiki remove GWiki remove LynxWiki