WikiASP vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. Instiki

General Features WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Version
1.6.2
16.3.0
1.32.2
2.11.0
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2005-10-12 (18 years ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (17 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Ruby's
Programming Language
ASP
Java
PHP
Java
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
general, education
Hosting Features WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Other
MS Access DB
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
Email notification
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Links WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
None
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Usability WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
No
Output WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiASP XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki Instiki
Internal Link
WikiWord
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]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''The quotation''
//Italics//
''italic''
''italics''
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
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]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
;term:definition
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
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