ProntoWiki vs. XWiki vs. Instiki

General Features ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Version
1.0.1
16.4.0
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2024-06-17 (1 day ago)
2024-05-28 (21 days ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
2024-05-30 (19 days ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
XWiki Development Team
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Ruby's
Programming Language
C#
Java
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
general, education
Hosting Features ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
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 ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Servlet 3.1+
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
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
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Special Features ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
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
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Comments
No
Threaded
No
Categories
Optional
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Links ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki XWiki Instiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
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)
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
{title|url}
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
__under__
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
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
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
***
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