Phonemos vs. ikiwiki vs. XWiki

General Features Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Version
2026.01
2.67
18.9.0
Last Release Date
2026-01-15 (9 months ago)
2008-10-17 (18 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-02-12 (8 months ago)
2008-10-28 (18 years ago)
2026-10-26 (4 days ago)
Author
http://www.phonemos.com
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Proprietary
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
React/Typescript, Scala
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Businesses
Anyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
-
N/A
Topic Restrictions
Content must be legal and not discriminatory
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
No
System Requirements Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Unix variants, Kubernetes
Any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Nginx
Any, or none
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
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 Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML2, OIDC, FIDO2
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Italian
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
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Phonemos 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
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
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
No
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
via REST API
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Usability Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
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
No
No
No
Statistics Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Phonemos ikiwiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[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 text](http://example.org)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
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
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
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
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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