MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. ErfurtWiki

General Features MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Version
1.32.2
18.0.1
2.11.0
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
Last Release Date
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Apache License 2.0
Public Domain (!)
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
all
small + medium sites, development teams
Hosting Features MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Datastorage MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Optional
Plugin
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Other
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
no
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Development/Support MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
not yet :-)
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
114 ⭐
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Patch
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
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Links MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Usability MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
No
Statistics MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Analysis
Optional
Yes
No
No
Output MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki XWiki JSPWiki ErfurtWiki
Internal Link
[[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)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
__bold text__
**bold text**
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
''italics''
''ialic text''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
optional or via css
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
==monospaced text==
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
optional or via css
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript text^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
optional or via css
Images
[[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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[link to the image.jpg]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
optional or via css
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
Horizontal Rule
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