Wiki-Toolkit vs. Wicked vs. XWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
Version
0.72
2.0.8
16.3.1
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2006-08-30 (17 years ago)
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-12-05 (17 years ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Dominic Hargreaves
The Horde Project
XWiki Development Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL/Artistic
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Wiki Developers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any
Hosting Features Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Anything that runs Perl
Any
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything with CGI support
Any
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Yes
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Plugin Interface
25 different backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki-toolkit on irc.perl.org
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Plugin
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
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
0
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
No
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Patch
Links Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
All
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
No
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Output Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Extras Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wiki-Toolkit Wicked XWiki PhpWiki
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)
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//italics//
//Italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
--Strike--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</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
[ 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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

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