UseMod vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki

General Features UseMod Zwiki XWiki
Version
1.2.2
0.61
18.3.0
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-04-27 (19 days ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-04-28 (18 days ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features UseMod Zwiki 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 Zwiki XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage UseMod Zwiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
No
ZODB (zope object database)
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 Zwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Patch
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support UseMod Zwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod Zwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
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 Zwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
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
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Unknown
No
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links UseMod Zwiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod Zwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
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
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
None
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability UseMod Zwiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics UseMod Zwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output UseMod Zwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files UseMod Zwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
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
Filenames only
Contents
Extras UseMod Zwiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples UseMod Zwiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
[[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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