| General Features | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2
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2.11.0
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18.7.0
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1.45.3
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| Last Release Date |
2013-08-13 (13 years ago)
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2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
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2026-08-31 (7 days ago)
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2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2013-08-22 (13 years ago)
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2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
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2026-08-31 (7 days ago)
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2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
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| Author |
Atlassian
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Apache Software Foundation
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XWiki Development Team
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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Apache License 2.0
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Java
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Java
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Java
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Database, Files
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Database, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
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all
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| Hosting Features | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
Unlimited
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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||
| Other Limits |
No
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
No
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N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
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N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Own Domain |
Optional
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N/A
|
Yes
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
No
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N/A
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No
|
N/A
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| System Requirements | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
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Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache Tomcat
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Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
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Servlet 5.0+
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Any with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
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optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
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Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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none
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| Datastorage | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Oracle |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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Optional
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Other |
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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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
|
No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
Yes
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| Host Blocking |
No
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Optional
|
No
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Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
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Optional
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| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Development/Support | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
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| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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118 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
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 |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Optional
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| Comments |
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
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| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Links | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Windows Shares |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
No
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| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
All
|
Some
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| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | JSPWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
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) |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
__bold__ |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
''italics'' |
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
{{monospace}} |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
--Strike-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.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:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
|
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
;term:definition |
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove Confluence | remove JSPWiki | remove XWiki | remove MediaWiki |