WikyBlog vs. PhpWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Version
1.5.4
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.32.2
16.2.0
2.11.0
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Josh Schmidt
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
Private, Internet Communities
Any
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
Software development teams
Hosting Features WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, anything with PHP
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
MySQL
various opt. helpers
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
RCS
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
0
Security/Anti-Spam WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
141
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, Javanese, 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
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Some
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
No
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Usability WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Statistics WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
No
Output WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikyBlog PhpWiki MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[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)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//Italics//
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ 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
[[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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
; term : definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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