Wicked vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiNi vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Version
2.0.8
1.32.2
16.2.0
0.5.0
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (30 days ago)
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (29 days ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
The Horde Project
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
Hosting Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
Yes
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
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
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
French
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
All
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
No
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Usability Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi TWiki JSPWiki
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)
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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
[[ ]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
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 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
** **
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
// //
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__ __
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
## ##
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
@@ @@
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
-
-
-
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
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)
1)
1)
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term : definition
; term
: definition
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
---
----
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