XWiki vs. alphawiki

General Features XWiki alphawiki
Version
18.8.0
v.20160608
Last Release Date
2026-09-29 (17 days ago)
2016-08-06 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-30 (16 days ago)
2016-09-10 (10 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
marty alain
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GNU-GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP+Javascript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
private users, small teams
Hosting Features XWiki alphawiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
System Requirements XWiki alphawiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
probably every OS
Root Access
No
Yes
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage XWiki alphawiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
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
None
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki alphawiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
No
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki alphawiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki alphawiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki alphawiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Links XWiki alphawiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Syntax Features XWiki alphawiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability XWiki alphawiki
Section Editing
Yes
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Statistics XWiki alphawiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Output XWiki alphawiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Optional
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki alphawiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras XWiki alphawiki
Calendar
Plugin
Optional
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki alphawiki
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)
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
Bold Format
**bold**
{b I am bold}
Italics Format
//Italics//
{i I am italic}
Underline Format
__underline__
{u I am underline}
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
{del I am line-through}
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
E = mc{sup 2}
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
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
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{center I am centered}
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Horizontal Rule
----
{hr}
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