UseMod vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Version
1.2.2
0.61
18.3.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-04-27 (28 days ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-04-28 (27 days ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
Clifford Adams
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Perl
Python
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any
Hosting Features UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
various opt. helpers
Datastorage UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
Yes
RCS
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
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
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
No
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Patch
Unknown
No
Yes
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
Yes
No
Development/Support UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Links UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Patch
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Scripting
None
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Patch
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Output UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples UseMod Zwiki XWiki PhpWiki
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)
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
N/A
--Strike--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>below</sub>
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
[ 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
Aligning Text
N/A
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
: indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

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