wxWikiServer vs. XWiki vs. XoWiki

General Features wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Version
1.5.11c
18.6.0
0.113
Last Release Date
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2026-07-27 (3 days ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
Author
Ryan Norton
XWiki Development Team
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
C++
Java
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
NA
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End users/Desktop
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Hosting Features wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
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 wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Operating System
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
built-in
Servlet 5.0+
AOLServer
Other Requirements
None
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
Other
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 wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
unknown
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Unknown
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
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
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Math formulas
No
Yes
Unknown
Tables
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Quoting
No
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
no
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Unknown
Statistics wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples wxWikiServer XWiki XoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
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://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''' bold text '''
**bold**
Italics Format
'' italic text ''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
start line with blank space.
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.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
] centred text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
* two.1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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