BlueSpice MediaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Version
3.2
18.0.1
Last Release Date
2021-03-16 (4 years ago)
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-03-17 (4 years ago)
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
Author
Hallo Welt! GmbH
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
System Requirements BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
Yes
No
Webserver
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
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 BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Development/Support BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Interface Languages
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Links BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Scripting
Java Script
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Optional
Yes
Media and Files BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Extras BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Examples BlueSpice MediaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[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)
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[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
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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