XoWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Version
0.113
18.2.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
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 XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
any
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
Servlet 5.0+
Zope
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
No
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Development/Support XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
Yes
No
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 XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
No
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
No
Yes
Statistics XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
No
Output XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
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 XoWiki XWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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