Phonemos vs. XWiki vs. Papyrs

General Features Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
Version
2626
18.0.0
N/A
Last Release Date
2025-09-29 (4 months ago)
2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2025-09-29 (4 months ago)
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
Author
http://www.phonemos.com
XWiki Development Team
Stunf BV
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
N/A
License
Proprietary
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
React/Typescript, Scala
Java
N/A
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
0
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Companies, teams and professionals.
Hosting Features Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
Storage Quota
Unlimited
161061273600
Bandwidth Quota
Other Limits
Topic Restrictions
Content must be legal and not discriminatory
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
No
System Requirements Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
Operating System
Linux, Windows, Unix variants
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
N/A
Root Access
No
No
N/A
Webserver
Nginx
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
Text Files
No
No
N/A
MySQL
No
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Oracle
No
Yes
N/A
SQLite
No
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
RCS
No
Plugin
N/A
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
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
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Special Features Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Unknown
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
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
via REST API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Statistics Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
Calendar
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Phonemos XWiki Papyrs
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)
[Link](/page)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
## Heading
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
*italic*
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`mono`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
~~strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
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
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
- list
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. list
2. list
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Horizontal Rule
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