Phonemos vs. XWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
Version
2026.01
18.6.0
2.67
Last Release Date
2026-01-15 (6 months ago)
2026-07-27 (3 days ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-02-12 (5 months ago)
2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
http://www.phonemos.com
XWiki Development Team
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
Proprietary
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
React/Typescript, Scala
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Anyone
Hosting Features Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
N/A
System Requirements Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Unix variants, Kubernetes
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Nginx
Servlet 5.0+
Any, or none
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
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 XWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
SAML2, OIDC, FIDO2
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
4
German, English, French, Italian
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
via REST API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Statistics Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Phonemos XWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
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)
[[internal]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
//Italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
__underline__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
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
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
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
*** list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove Phonemos remove XWiki remove ikiwiki