WikiWikiWiki vs. XWiki vs. Wiki.js

General Features WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Version
1.4.0
18.9.0
2.5.316
Last Release Date
2026-03-31 (7 months ago)
2026-10-26 (13 days ago)
2026-10-01 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-31 (7 months ago)
2026-10-26 (13 days ago)
2026-10-03 (1 month ago)
Author
Min Guhong
XWiki Development Team
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
MIT
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Javascript
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Personal, small to medium communities
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everyone
Hosting Features WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Operating System
Any OS running PHP 8.2+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
All
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Nginx (optional)
Servlet 5.0+
All
Other Requirements
PHP 8.2+; required: json, mbstring, session, hash, pcre; optional: zip, intl
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Node.js
Datastorage WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Text Files
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Optional
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
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
30 ⭐
N/A
29182 ⭐
Common Features WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
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
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
Email notification
No
Yes
No
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Links WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
No
Usability WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Statistics WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Output WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
Office Export
No
Yes
No
Media and Files WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
Calendar
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
No
Yes
No
Presentations
No
Plugin
No
Forums
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples WikiWikiWiki XWiki Wiki.js
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)
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
<https://...>
[Text](https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
# Headline 1
## Headline 2
### Headline 3
#### Headline 4
##### Headline 5
###### Headline 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**Text**
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
*Text*
//Italics//
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
`code`
##monospace##
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
~~Text~~
--Strike--
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~Subscript Text~
Images
![](https://wikiwikiwiki.wiki/cherry.jpg)
(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
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> Quote
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
* List
** list
*** list
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
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
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
Term
: Definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
***
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