Wikepage vs. Wikidot vs. WikkaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Version
2008.1
1.4.2
18.4.1
Last Release Date
2008-10-14 (17 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-06-15 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-24 (17 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2020-04-20 (6 years ago)
2026-06-16 (4 days ago)
Author
Jose Carlos Medeiros
Michal Frackowiak
Wikka Development Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
AGPLv3
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Files
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small groups
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
System Requirements Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Operating System
Platform Independent
any (platform-independent)
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Server Independent
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
n/a
mod_rewrite (optional)
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Unknown
No
No
MySQL
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Unknown
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Unknown
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
No
RCS
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Other
No
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 Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory (patch)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
42 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
None
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
2
English, Polish
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
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
None
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Syntax Features Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
None
None
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Patch
No
Statistics Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Patch
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Patch
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Patch
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
No
Contents
Extras Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Calendar
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wikepage Wikidot WikkaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
[Link_type]
[http://externallink.com]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
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://externallink.com/|click]
[http://externallink.com/|picture.gif]
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Biggest
!! Smaller
!!! Smallest
+++ headline level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**Bold**
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''Italic''
//italic text//
//italic//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__Underline__
__underlined text__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
With a space in front of the text
{{monospaced text}}
##monospaced##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
n/a
--strikethrough text--
++Strike through text++
--Strike--
Superscript Format
n/a
^^superscript^^
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
n/a
,,subscript,,
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
,,subscript,,
Images
[image.gif]
[http://externalimage.com/image.gif]
[[image src="..."]]
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
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
= Centered line
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
n/a
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet1
* Bullet2
* element 1
* element 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
n/a
# element 1
# element 1
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
: item : description
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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