bLADE Wiki vs. ikiwiki vs. XWiki

General Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Version
3.4.9
2.67
18.0.1
Last Release Date
2008-11-10 (17 years ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
2026-02-04 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-11-21 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-02-04 (2 days ago)
Author
Dale Lane
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
C#
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
Anyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Operating System
Windows, Windows Mobile
Any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Any, or none
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
.NET 2 Framework
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
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 bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
1
English
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
Unknown
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
No
Statistics bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Extras bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples bLADE Wiki ikiwiki XWiki
Internal Link
[Link to a page]
[[internal]]
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)
External Link
[http://www.linkme.com]
[link text](http://example.org)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
+Heading
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold text*
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
=italic text=
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//Italics//
Underline Format
_underlined text_
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
[|code sample|]
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough text-
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[$image.jpg$]
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
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
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> blockquote text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
- bulleted
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# numbered
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
___
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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