WikiASP vs. XWiki vs. Wicked vs. MediaWiki

General Features WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Version
1.6.2
16.3.1
2.0.8
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2005-10-12 (18 years ago)
2024-05-09 (11 days ago)
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-26 (17 years ago)
2024-05-13 (7 days ago)
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Elrey Ronald V.
XWiki Development Team
The Horde Project
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
FREE
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
ASP
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
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 WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 3.1+
Any
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Text_Wiki from PEAR
none
Datastorage WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
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
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
25 different backends
Yes
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Development/Support WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
1 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
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
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Links WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
None
Some
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
No
Optional
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Usability WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Output WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Themes & Skins
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Media and Files WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikiASP XWiki Wicked MediaWiki
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]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''The quotation''
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<space char here>This is mono
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
_This is Strike Through_
--Strike--
@@--- strikethrough @@
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<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
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
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
Bulleted Lists
* Test
* Bullets
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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