WikiWikiWiki vs. UseMod vs. XWiki

General Features WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Version
1.4.0
1.2.2
18.3.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-31 (1 month ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-04-27 (7 days ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-31 (1 month ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-04-28 (6 days ago)
Author
Min Guhong
Clifford Adams
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, small to medium communities
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WikiWikiWiki UseMod 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 WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Operating System
Any OS running PHP 8.2+
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Nginx (optional)
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
PHP 8.2+; required: json, mbstring, session, hash, pcre; optional: zip, intl
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
Other
Search/related indexes cached in JSON (auto-rebuild on stale/invalid)
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 WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
Patch
No
Blacklist
No
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
26 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
No
Yes
Special Features WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Korean
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
Unknown
Yes
Comments
No
No
Threaded
Categories
No
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Tables
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Unknown
Yes
Usability WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
No
Statistics WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
File Attachments
No
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Extras WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples WikiWikiWiki UseMod XWiki
Internal Link
[[Title]]
[[Title|Alias]]
[[Parent/Child]]
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
<https://...>
[Text](https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
# Headline 1
## Headline 2
### Headline 3
#### Headline 4
##### Headline 5
###### Headline 6
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**Text**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
*Text*
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
`code`
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~Text~~
N/A
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
![](https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki/cherry.jpg)
(image: https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki/cherry.jpg)
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
> Quote
: indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
- Watermelon
- Melon
- Peach
- Fig
- Cherry
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Watermelon
2. Melon
3. Peach
4. Fig
5. Cherry
# 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
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
***
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