| General Features | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
18.7.0
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2.11.0
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1.45.3
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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| Last Release Date |
2026-08-31 (6 days ago)
|
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (9 months ago)
|
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-08-31 (6 days ago)
|
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (3 months ago)
|
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
XWiki Development Team
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
Apache License 2.0
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Java
|
Java
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, RCS
|
Database, Files
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
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0
|
0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
all
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Any
|
| Hosting Features | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Operating System |
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Servlet 5.0+
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
none
|
various opt. helpers
|
| Datastorage | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
No
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
Yes
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
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#phpwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
118 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Links | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
Optional
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Output | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
No
|
| Extras | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | XWiki | JSPWiki | MediaWiki | PhpWiki |
| 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) |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
| External Link |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
| Headlines |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
__bold__ |
'''bold''' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
| Italics Format |
//Italics// |
''italics'' |
''italic'' |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
{{monospace}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
--Strike-- |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>above</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>below</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 |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] external image [Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] view uploaded image [Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] view and link to another image |
| Aligning Text |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
<center>Centered</center> |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
| Text Indentation |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
: indented line |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
| Bulleted Lists |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* list or - list |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# list |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
;term:definition |
; term : definition |
Term:<def> def |
| Horizontal Rule |
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---- |
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| remove XWiki | remove JSPWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove PhpWiki |