Wiki.js vs. XWiki

General Features Wiki.js XWiki
Version
2.5.299
17.10.0
Last Release Date
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
2025-11-24 (11 days ago)
Last Update here
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2025-11-25 (10 days ago)
Author
Nicolas Giard
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
AGPL-v3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Javascript
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Everyone
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wiki.js XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
System Requirements Wiki.js XWiki
Operating System
All
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
All
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Node.js
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wiki.js XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Optional
Plugin
Other
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
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 Wiki.js XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Wiki.js XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
27408 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wiki.js XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wiki.js XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Interface Languages
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, 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
No
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Links Wiki.js XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Syntax Features Wiki.js XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Scripting
JS, CSS
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Usability Wiki.js XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Statistics Wiki.js XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Output Wiki.js XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Office Export
No
Yes
Media and Files Wiki.js XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras Wiki.js XWiki
Calendar
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Presentations
No
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Blogs
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wiki.js XWiki
Internal Link
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
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
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**Bold Text**
**bold**
Italics Format
*Italic Text*
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>Underline Text</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`Monospace Code`
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~Strikethrough Text~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^Superscript Text^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
~Subscript Text~
,,subscript,,
Images
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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