| General Features | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.4.0
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18.4.1
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2.1.11
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1.2.2
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| Last Release Date |
2026-03-31 (2 months ago)
|
2026-06-15 (7 days ago)
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2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
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2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-03-31 (2 months ago)
|
2026-06-16 (6 days ago)
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2026-03-15 (3 months ago)
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2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
|
| Author |
Min Guhong
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Foswiki Community
|
Clifford Adams
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
MIT
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Java
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Perl
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Perl
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| Data Storage |
Files
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Database, RCS
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Files, RCS
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Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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$0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Personal, small to medium communities
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
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| Hosting Features | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| Operating System |
Any OS running PHP 8.2+
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, Nginx (optional)
|
Servlet 5.0+
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
|
| Other Requirements |
PHP 8.2+; required: json, mbstring, session, hash, pcre; optional: zip, intl
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Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
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| Datastorage | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
Search/related indexes cached in JSON (auto-rebuild on stale/invalid)
|
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
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
29 ⭐
|
N/A
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118 ⭐
|
N/A
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| Common Features | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Special Features | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Interface Languages |
2
English, Korean |
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 |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
0
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| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Comments |
No
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
None
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Usability | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
No
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| File Attachments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | WikiWikiWiki | XWiki | Foswiki | UseMod |
| 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) |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
|
| External Link |
<https://...> [Text](https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki) |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
|
| Headlines |
# Headline 1 ## Headline 2 ### Headline 3 #### Headline 4 ##### Headline 5 ###### Headline 6 |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== ====== Level 6 ====== |
| Bold Format |
**Text** |
**bold** |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
*Text* |
//Italics// |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
`code` |
##monospace## |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
<tt>for monospace text</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~Text~~ |
--Strike-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
N/A |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
 (image: https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki/cherry.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 |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
http://url.com/pic.gif |
| Aligning Text |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
N/A |
| Text Indentation |
> Quote |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
: indented |
| Bulleted Lists |
- Watermelon - Melon - Peach - Fig - Cherry |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Watermelon 2. Melon 3. Peach 4. Fig 5. Cherry |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
Term : Definition |
; term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
;Term:Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
*** --- |
---- |
--- |
---- |
| remove WikiWikiWiki | remove XWiki | remove Foswiki | remove UseMod |