XoWiki vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki

General Features XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
Version
0.113
0.61
18.5.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-06-29 (28 days ago)
Author
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
XOTcl and Tcl
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
large and small organizations as well as individuals
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features XoWiki Zwiki 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 Zwiki XWiki
Operating System
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
AOLServer
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Plugin
No
MySQL
No
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
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 Zwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Development/Support XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
# 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 Zwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Unknown
No
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 Zwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Optional
No
Interface Languages
3
German, English, Spanish
0
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
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
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
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Yes
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
Yes
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
Section Editing
Optional
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Unknown
Yes
No
Statistics XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Unknown
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
XML export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
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
Filenames only
Contents
Extras XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples XoWiki Zwiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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
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..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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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