WikkaWiki vs. UseMod vs. XWiki vs. Wikepage

General Features WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
Version
1.4.2
1.2.2
18.4.0
2008.1
Last Release Date
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-05-27 (13 days ago)
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
Clifford Adams
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
PHP
Perl
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
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 WikkaWiki UseMod 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 WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Platform Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Servlet 5.0+
Server Independent
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
n/a
Datastorage WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
No
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 WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
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
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
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
Yes
No
Yes
No
Special Features WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
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
Patch
Unknown
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
No
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
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
Yes
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Patch
Unknown
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Patch
No
No
No
Statistics WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Patch
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
No
Output WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
No
XML export
Patch
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
No
Office Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
No
Extras WikkaWiki UseMod XWiki Wikepage
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki UseMod 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 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**Bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
''Italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__Underline__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospace##
With a space in front of the text
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
N/A
--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://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
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
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
N/A
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
n/a
Text Indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
: indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
n/a
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

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

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

(more options for lists are available)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
n/a
Definition Lists
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
;Term:Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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