JSPWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki

General Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Version
2.11.0
1.32.2
2.5.8
18.2.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2026-03-30 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-03-09 (23 days ago)
2026-03-31 (1 day ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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 JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Media and Files JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Extras JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples JSPWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
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://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
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
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
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 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# 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
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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