Hatta vs. Zwiki vs. UseMod vs. Wikia vs. XWiki

General Features Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Version
1.6.6
0.61
1.2.2
N/A
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
N/A
2026-05-27 (1 day ago)
Last Update here
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
2026-05-27 (1 day ago)
Author
Radomir Dopieralski
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Clifford Adams
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL v2
GPLv2
GPL
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
Python
Perl
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database
Files
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
none
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
any
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Zope
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Mercurial
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
Yes
N/A
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
N/A
Yes
SQLite
Optional
Unknown
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
N/A
No
RCS
Yes
Unknown
No
N/A
Plugin
Other
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
ZODB (zope object database)
No
N/A
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 Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
n/a
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Unknown
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#wiki at freenode.net
#zwiki on freenode
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Special Features Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
0
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Optional
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
No
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
DTML
None
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Usability Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Patch
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
Statistics Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Output Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
No
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Hatta Zwiki UseMod Wikia XWiki
Internal Link
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
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..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
n/a
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{{verbatim}}}
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
n/a
N/A
--Strike--
Superscript Format
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
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
Aligning Text
n/a
N/A
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
n/a
: indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
n/a
;Term:Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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