| General Features | Sputnik | XWiki |
|---|---|---|
| Version |
8.08.13
|
18.2.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-30 (7 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2026-03-31 (6 days ago)
|
| Author |
Yuri Takhteyev
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| URL | ||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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| License |
MIT/X
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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| Programming Language |
Lua
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Database, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Small teams or private users
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
| Hosting Features | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
|
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
| Datastorage | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
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| Other |
Git
|
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 | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | Sputnik | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||
| Issue Tracker | ||
| Mailing List | ||
| Support Forum | ||
| Chat Channel | ||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, 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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
No
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
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Conflict Resolution
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| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | Sputnik | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Sputnik | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Lua, JavaScript
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | Sputnik | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | Sputnik | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[Sputnik]] |
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 |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
# Sputnik |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
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 |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
> Sputnik |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Sputnik |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Sputnik |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
- - - |
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| remove Sputnik | remove XWiki |