UseMod vs. WikkaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Wikepage

General Features UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Version
1.2.2
1.4.2
18.4.0
2008.1
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Wikka Development Team
XWiki Development Team
Jose Carlos Medeiros
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Private users, small groups
Hosting Features UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
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 UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any (platform-independent)
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Platform Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Servlet 5.0+
Server Independent
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
n/a
Datastorage UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
42 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
None
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
0
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
0
Email notification
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
No
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
None
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Patch
No
No
Statistics UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Patch
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Patch
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Patch
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Extras UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod WikkaWiki XWiki Wikepage
Internal Link
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
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_type]
[http://externallink.com]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
**Bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//italic//
//Italics//
''Italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
__Underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospaced##
##monospace##
With a space in front of the text
Strikethrough Format
N/A
++Strike through text++
--Strike--
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^^superscript^^
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
,,subscript,,
n/a
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.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.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
Aligning Text
N/A
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
n/a
Text Indentation
: indented
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
n/a
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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