Papyrs vs. ikiwiki vs. XWiki

General Features Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Version
N/A
2.67
18.9.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2008-10-17 (18 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
Last Update here
2020-08-06 (6 years ago)
2008-10-28 (18 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
Author
Stunf BV
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
Perl
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Companies, teams and professionals.
Anyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Storage Quota
161061273600
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
No
N/A
No
System Requirements Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Operating System
N/A
Any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Any, or none
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Other
N/A
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 Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
No
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Plugin
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
Statistics Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Papyrs ikiwiki XWiki
Internal Link
[Link](/page)
[[internal]]
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
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[link text](http://example.org)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
## Heading
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
*italic*
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`mono`
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
- list
- list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
***
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
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