| General Features | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
18.5.0
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1.45.3
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Pleiades-M45
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| Last Release Date |
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
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2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
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2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-29 (19 days ago)
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2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
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2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
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| Author |
XWiki Development Team
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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team
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPL
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LGPL
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| Programming Language |
Java
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PHP
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Perl
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| Data Storage |
Database, RCS
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Database
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Files, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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corporate and special interest groups
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| Hosting Features | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
No
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| Operating System |
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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Unix/Linux
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
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No
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| Webserver |
Servlet 5.0+
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Any with PHP support
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Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
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| Other Requirements |
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
none
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perl 4 or newer
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| Datastorage | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
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Yes
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| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Oracle |
Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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| SQLite |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
|
Plugin
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| RCS |
Plugin
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No
|
Plugin
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| 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
|
No
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archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
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| Security/Anti-Spam | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
Yes
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Apache
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| Host Blocking |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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| nofollow |
No
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Optional
|
No
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| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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| Development/Support | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
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| Plugin System |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
No
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Yes
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Unknown
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| 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 |
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 |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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| Comments |
Threaded
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Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
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| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
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| Concurrent Editing |
Yes
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No
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
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| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Links | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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| Freelinks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| InterWiki |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Windows Shares |
Yes
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No
|
No
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| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Syntax Features | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
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| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
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| Textile Support |
No
|
No
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Optional
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
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Optional
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Optional
|
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
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| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| Usability | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
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Optional
|
Optional
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| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Statistics | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
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Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Output | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | XWiki | MediaWiki | KeheiWiki |
| 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 link]] [[a link|with title]] |
%topic% ( '%' configurable ) or <link topic>text</link> or use HTML in rich text editor |
| External Link |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://gmail.com/ or <extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern> or use HTML in rich text editor |
| Headlines |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
text ---- or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
_ text _ or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Italics Format |
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
* text * or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<wiki code> stuff </wiki code> |
| Strikethrough Format |
--Strike-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| 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 |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Aligning Text |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
<p align=right> stuff or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Text Indentation |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
: indented line |
<ul> stuff </ul> or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Bulleted Lists |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* text or <!> text or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
digits. stuff or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
term: definition or insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
can use plain < HR > tag or via WYSIWYG editor |
| remove XWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove KeheiWiki |