XWiki vs. Anwiki

General Features XWiki Anwiki
Version
18.8.0
0.2.5
Last Release Date
2026-09-29 (17 days ago)
2010-12-13 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-30 (16 days ago)
2013-06-25 (13 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Antoine Walter
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 3
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Designed for multilingual contents and/or structured contents. Light, extensive and overridable architecture.
Hosting Features XWiki Anwiki
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 Anwiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, Windows, probably others
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, probably others with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage XWiki Anwiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
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
Extensible to any datastorage by implementing a custom driver
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Anwiki
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
Extensible to any authentication backend by implementing a custom driver
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki Anwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features XWiki Anwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age or Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Anwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
5
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links XWiki Anwiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki Anwiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript ; PHP scripts can be enabled
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki Anwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics XWiki Anwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output XWiki Anwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Unknown
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Anwiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras XWiki Anwiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Anwiki
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)
<a href="en/home">go home</a>
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
<a href="http://www.anwiki.com">Anwiki</a>
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
<h1>Title</h2>
<h2>Subtitle</h2>
...
Bold Format
**bold**
<b>bold</b>
Italics Format
//Italics//
<i>italic</i>
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>Anwiki</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>Anwiki</sub>
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
<img src=""/>
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>anwiki</center>
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
<ul>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ul>
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
<ol>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
</ol>
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
<dt>item</dt>
<dt>item</dt>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
<hr/>
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