UseMod vs. Wikia vs. XWiki

General Features UseMod Wikia XWiki
Version
1.2.2
N/A
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
N/A
2026-05-27 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
2026-05-27 (2 days ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Files
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features UseMod Wikia XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
none
Topic Restrictions
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements UseMod Wikia XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage UseMod Wikia XWiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
No
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
No
N/A
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
N/A
Plugin
Other
No
N/A
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 Wikia XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Patch
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support UseMod Wikia XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod Wikia 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
No
Yes
Special Features UseMod Wikia XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
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
Email notification
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links UseMod Wikia XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod Wikia XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Yes
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
None
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Usability UseMod Wikia XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Statistics UseMod Wikia 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
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output UseMod Wikia XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files UseMod Wikia XWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras UseMod Wikia XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples UseMod Wikia XWiki
Internal Link
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
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
N/A
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented
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
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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