SharePoint Wiki Plus vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
Version
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
18.5.0
1.45.3
Last Release Date
2017-08-05 (8 years ago)
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-11 (7 years ago)
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
Author
KWizCom Corporation
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$3680
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
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 MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2003/2008
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Microsoft IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
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 MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
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
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
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Optional
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Keywords
Extras SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples SharePoint Wiki Plus XWiki MediaWiki
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[http://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
'''Bold text'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''Italicized text''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined text</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text=
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strike through</s>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
<div align="right">
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
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
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
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
Horizontal Rule
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