| General Features | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.7.4
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18.6.0
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1.45.3
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| Last Release Date |
2026-07-31 (25 days ago)
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2026-07-27 (29 days ago)
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2025-12-04 (8 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-07-31 (25 days ago)
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2026-07-28 (28 days ago)
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2026-06-03 (2 months ago)
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| Author |
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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XWiki Development Team
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
GPL2+
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Java
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Files
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Database, RCS
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
All
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| Hosting Features | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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No
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N/A
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| System Requirements | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
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Servlet 5.0+
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Any with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
none
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Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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none
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| Datastorage | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Oracle |
No
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Yes
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No
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| SQLite |
Plugin
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No
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Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
Plugin
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Plugin
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No
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| Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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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
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No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Authentication Backends |
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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Yes
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| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
No
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Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
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Plugin
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| nofollow |
Yes
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No
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Optional
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| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Plugin
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Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
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Yes
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Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
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Yes
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No
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| Development/Support | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Special Features | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
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No
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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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 |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
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Optional
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
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Threaded
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Discussion Pages
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| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Resolution
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| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
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| Search |
Full Text
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Full Text
|
Full Text
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| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Links | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
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| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
All
|
Some
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| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
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| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
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| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Quoting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Custom styles |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
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Unknown
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| Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
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velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
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Optional
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| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Statistics | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
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| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | PmWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
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) |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
{+underlined+} |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
@@monospace@@ |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
{-strikethrough-} |
--Strike-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
'^superscript^' |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
'_subscript_' |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
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 |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove PmWiki | remove XWiki | remove MediaWiki |