XWiki vs. mobiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Version
18.7.0
2016-06-26
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2026-08-31 (11 days ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2019-07-25 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-08-31 (11 days ago)
2016-06-26 (10 years ago)
2019-11-20 (6 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Martin D�ring
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
BSD
Programming Language
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Text centric websites and mobile use
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
any
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
any
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
PHP 5.4+
A common browser
Datastorage XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Optional
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
No
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Unknown
Page History
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
None
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
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
0
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
No
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
No
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Yes
Links XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
none
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Plugin
Statistics XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Output XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki mobiki TiddlyWiki
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)
[Internal Link]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://mobiki.datenbrei.de
[Text|http://mobiki.datenbrei.de]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
!Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
''bold''
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
n/a
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
n/a
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
n/a
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
n/a
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
n/a
~~subscript~~
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
http://image.png
image:example.jpg
images:imagefolder
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
___
aligned text
___
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
n/a
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
- One
- Two
* One
* Two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
0. One
0. Two
0. Three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
n/a
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
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