Wicked vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Instiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Version
2.0.8
1.32.2
16.3.0
0.30.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
The Horde Project
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Ruby's
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Ruby on Rails
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
general, education
Any
Hosting Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Ruby 2.0-2.6
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
None
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
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
nofollow
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Development/Support Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
478 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
1
English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
No
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Links Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
All
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
No
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Output Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
No
Extras Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Galleries
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wicked MediaWiki XWiki Instiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[[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)
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[another site](http://example.com)
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
_italic_, *italic*
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
`monospace`
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
[[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
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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

> blockquote
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term : definition
; term
: definition
term
: definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
***
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