Pwic.wiki vs. Zim vs. XWiki

General Features Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Version
1.2
0.56
18.7.0
Last Release Date
2024-06-24 (2 years ago)
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2026-08-31 (14 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-06-24 (2 years ago)
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2026-08-31 (14 days ago)
Author
Team Pwic.wiki
Jaap Karssenberg
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, IT consultancy, Software development, Small to medium companies
Private users, small teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
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
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Stand-alone (Python aiohttp)
None
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
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 Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Salted password, OAuth2 (Google, Microsoft, Github), 2FA TOTP
File permissions
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Patch
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
20 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Optional
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
3
German, English, French
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Patch
No
Yes
Comments
No
No
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
No
Yes
Links Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Patch
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Patch
No
Yes
Syntax Features Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
All
Math formulas
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Optional
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
External API for automation and bots
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Patch
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Yes
Usability Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Optional
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
Statistics Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Patch
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Calendar
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
No
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Pwic.wiki Zim XWiki
Internal Link
[Paragraph](#p_1_1)
[Page](/project/page)
[Attachment](/special/document/1)
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
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](https://pwic.wiki/en)
<https://pwic.wiki/en>
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
# Title 1
## Title 2
### Title 3
=== Heading ===
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
*italics*
//italic//
//Italics//
Underline Format
--underline--
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
`keyword`

```python
print('Block of code')
```
``monospace``
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
~~strike~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
x<sup>2</sup> (trick)
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
x<sub>2</sub> (trick)
_{sub}
,,subscript,,
Images
![Caption](/special/document/1 "Image").
{{./image.png}}
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
not implemented
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> Block line 1
> Block line 2
indent with tabs
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
not implemented
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
not implemented
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