WikkaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki vs. wxWikiServer

General Features WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Version
1.4.2
16.2.0
0.61
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
Author
Wikka Development Team
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Python
C++
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
NA
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
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
End users/Desktop
Hosting Features WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
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 WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Operating System
any (platform-independent)
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Servlet 3.1+
Zope
built-in
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Other
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
unknown
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Patch
No
Development/Support WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
42 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
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
0
1
English
Email notification
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Patch
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Patch
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Scripting
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
no
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Patch
No
Yes
Unknown
Statistics WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Patch
Yes
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
No
Output WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Patch
No
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikkaWiki XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
//italic//
//Italics//
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospaced##
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
++Strike through text++
--Strike--
Superscript Format
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
,,subscript,,
Images
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
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
] centred text
Text Indentation
(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
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* one
* two
* two.1
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)
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
""<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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