MoasdaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Version
3.9.1
18.2.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2024-10-04 (1 year ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-11-03 (1 year ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Herbert Reiter
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-3.0-only
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Java
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
personal usage, small teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Any platform with Java VM 17+
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Built-in
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
Java VM 17+
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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
No
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
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
Common Features MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
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
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Patch
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
No
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples MoasdaWiki XWiki Zwiki
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[[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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
##italic##
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
@@monospace font@@
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~striked through~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
{{html}}<sup>superscript</sup>{{/html}}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
{{html}}<sub>subscript</sub>{{/html}}
,,subscript,,
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
Aligning Text
{{center}}centered text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
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 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
{{html}}
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
{{/html}}
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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