Wicked vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Instiki

General Features Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Version
2.0.8
16.2.0
1.32.2
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
The Horde Project
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Ruby's
Programming Language
PHP
Java
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
general, education
Hosting Features Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
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 Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Operating System
Any
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
None
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
No
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
478 ⭐
Common Features Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Links Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
None
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
No
Output Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wicked XWiki MediaWiki Instiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a 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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
''italic''
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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

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