SharePoint Wiki Plus vs. XWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
Version
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
18.5.0
2.67
Last Release Date
2017-08-05 (8 years ago)
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-11 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Author
KWizCom Corporation
XWiki Development Team
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
License
per server
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
.NET - C#
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$3680
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Anyone
Hosting Features SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
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 SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2003/2008
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Microsoft IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Any, or none
Other Requirements
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
MS SQL Server
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 SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
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
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
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
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
Yes
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
Yes
No
No
Statistics SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Optional
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
[[SPD]]
[[SharePoint Designer | SPD]]
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
[http://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Two syntaxes:

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

heading 1
=========

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

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<s>strike through</s>
--Strike--
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
Images
[[Image:KWizCom-logo.gif|KWizCom – Knowledge Worker Components]]
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
<div align="right">
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
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 SharePoint Wiki Plus remove XWiki remove ikiwiki