UseMod vs. PhpWiki vs. XWiki

General Features UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
Version
1.2.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-05-27 (6 days ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-05-27 (6 days ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features UseMod PhpWiki 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 UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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 UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
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
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
0
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Links UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
plugins, templates, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples UseMod PhpWiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
N/A
<strike>striked through</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
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
N/A
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
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
or
- list
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
Term:<def>
def
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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