XoWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. XWiki

General Features XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Version
0.113
phpwiki-1.3.14
18.6.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
2026-07-27 (26 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-07-28 (25 days ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Any
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features XoWiki PhpWiki 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 XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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 XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
No
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Yes
Links XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Yes
plugins, templates, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Optional
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
Statistics XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
No
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Extras XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples XoWiki PhpWiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
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
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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