| General Features | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.30.0
|
1.2.2
|
18.5.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
|
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
|
2026-06-29 (7 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
|
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
|
2026-06-29 (7 days ago)
|
| Author |
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
|
Clifford Adams
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Ruby's
|
GPL
|
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
| Programming Language |
Ruby on Rails
|
Perl
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
general, education
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
|
| Hosting Features | Instiki | UseMod | 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 | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
|
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
|
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
|
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
| Other Requirements |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
|
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
|
| Datastorage | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
|
No
|
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 | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
||
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
505 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
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
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
No
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
None
|
None
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | Instiki | UseMod | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
|
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 |
[another site](http://example.com) |
|
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
= 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* |
''italic'' |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
`monospace` |
<tt>for monospace text</tt> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
N/A |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
, [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
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 |
p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
N/A |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}
> blockquote |
: indented |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
term : definition |
;Term:Definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
*** |
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| remove Instiki | remove UseMod | remove XWiki |