XWiki vs. Drupal Wiki vs. Papyrs vs. Wiki.js

General Features XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Version
18.0.0
8.37
N/A
2.5.299
Last Release Date
2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
2025-06-05 (7 months ago)
N/A
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
2025-06-12 (7 months ago)
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
https://kontextwork.de
Stunf BV
Nicolas Giard
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial
N/A
AGPL-v3
Programming Language
Java
Java
N/A
Javascript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
Database, Files, other, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Different licences
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise
Companies, teams and professionals.
Everyone
Hosting Features XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Storage Quota
161061273600
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
No
No
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
N/A
All
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, nginx
N/A
All
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Node.js
Datastorage XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Text Files
No
No
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
N/A
No
SQLite
No
No
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
N/A
No
RCS
Plugin
No
N/A
Optional
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
N/A
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
N/A
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
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
2
German, English
1
English
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Links XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
CamelCase
Yes
No
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
HTML Tags
All
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Widgets
JavaScript
JS, CSS
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Statistics XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Output XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Media and Files XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Drupal Wiki Papyrs Wiki.js
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)
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
[Link](/page)
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
## Heading
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
Bold Format
**bold**
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
**bold**
**Bold Text**
Italics Format
//Italics//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
*italic*
*Italic Text*
Underline Format
__underline__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<u>underline</u>
<u>Underline Text</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
`mono`
`Monospace Code`
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
~~strikethrough~~
~~Strikethrough Text~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
^Superscript Text^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
~Subscript Text~
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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
![Image Title](/path/to/image.png)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
- list
- list
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
1. list
2. list
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Horizontal Rule
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
***
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