MediaWiki vs. MoasdaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Version
1.32.2
3.9.1
18.2.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Herbert Reiter
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
AGPL-3.0-only
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal usage, small teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
none
Java VM 17+
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other
No
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
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
2
German, 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
0
Email notification
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
No
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
Optional
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
No
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link | with title]]
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.org]]
[[http://example.org | with title]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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..
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Section
== Subsection
=== Sub-subsection
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
##italic##
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace font@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
~~striked through~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{image:wiki.png}}
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
<center>Centered</center>
{{center}}centered text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-indented text

Single indented text

Double indented text
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 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
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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