| General Features | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.67
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18.9.0
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2.1.11
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1.45.3
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| Last Release Date |
2008-10-17 (18 years ago)
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2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
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2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
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2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2008-10-28 (18 years ago)
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2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
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2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
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2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
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| Author |
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Foswiki Community
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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 |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Perl
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Java
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Perl
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
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Database, RCS
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Files, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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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 |
Anyone
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| Hosting Features | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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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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N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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No
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Any
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Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any, or none
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Servlet 5.0+
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Any with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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none
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| Datastorage | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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| MySQL |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Oracle |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| SQLite |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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| 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
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caching of content into database using plugins
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No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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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 |
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
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XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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Yes
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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| nofollow |
No
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No
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Yes
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Optional
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| Blacklist |
Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
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No
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| Development/Support | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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118 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
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 |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
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Threaded
|
Plugin
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Discussion Pages
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| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
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Conflict Resolution
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| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
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| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Links | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Freelinks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
Plugin
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Windows Shares |
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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No
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| Page Redirects |
Unknown
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
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All
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Some
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| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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Yes
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| Tables |
simple + complex
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simple + complex
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simple + complex
|
simple + complex
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| CREOLE support |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
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No
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| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Textile Support |
Plugin
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No
|
Plugin
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No
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| BBCode Support |
No
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No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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Optional
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Footnotes |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
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Yes
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| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Custom styles |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Unknown
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| Scripting |
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
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JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Statistics | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ikiwiki | XWiki | Foswiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[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) |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[link text](http://example.org) |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** __bold__ |
**bold** |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
//Italics// |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
##monospace## |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
--Strike-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
  |
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 |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
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 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
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