Oddmuse vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Version
2.3.13
18.3.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-04-27 (29 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-04-28 (28 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features Oddmuse 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 Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Oddmuse 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 Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
None (use your web server instead)
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
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
Interface Languages
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Plugin
Yes
No
Namespaces
Plugin
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Patch
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Yes
Statistics Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Oddmuse XWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → 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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[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
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
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
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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