ProWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Version
2.0.045
18.2.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Helmut Leitner
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Python
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Unix / Linux
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
none
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Patch
Development/Support ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Links ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
No
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
No
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProWiki XWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink]
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://example.org
InterWiki:page
[some:link labelforlink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 =
=== Headline 3 =
==== Headline 4 =
===== Headline 5 =
====== Headline 6 =
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
[[strike]strikethrough text]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>text</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>text</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.org/file.jpg
Upload:file.gif
[[Image]...options...]
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
only as part of tables or citations
[align:left|center|right]
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
:: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* bulleted list
** bulleted list
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# numbered list
## numbered list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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