XWiki vs. PageWork

General Features XWiki PageWork
Version
18.8.0
0.4.8
Last Release Date
2026-09-29 (17 days ago)
2010-07-20 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-30 (16 days ago)
2010-10-23 (15 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Pitt Murmann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv3
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
none
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Medium-sized sites
Hosting Features XWiki PageWork
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 PageWork
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Any
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Any
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
DBA with bdb or qdbm support
Datastorage XWiki PageWork
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Patch
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
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
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki PageWork
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
Proprietary
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
Development/Support XWiki PageWork
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki PageWork
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki PageWork
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
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
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links XWiki PageWork
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki PageWork
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki PageWork
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics XWiki PageWork
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output XWiki PageWork
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki PageWork
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Extras XWiki PageWork
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PageWork
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]]
[[link|alternate text]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= L1 =
== L2 ==
=== L3 ===
==== L4 ====
===== L5 =====

= L1
== L2
=== L3
==== L4
===== L5
Bold Format
**bold**
This is '''bold''' (or rather, strong).
This is **bold**, too.
Italics Format
//Italics//
This is in ''italics'' (or rather, emphasized).
This is in //italics//, too.
Underline Format
__underline__
This is __underlined__.
Monospace Format
##monospace##
This is %%monospaced%%.
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
This is --not-- important.
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
a^^2^^ = b^^2^^ + c^^2^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
p^^^n^^^ := {x^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^, y^^^n^^^}
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|image_file.suffix}}
{{image|image_file.suffix|alternate text}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix}}
{{figure|image_file.suffix|caption text}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{{p|align:left|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:center|text of paragraph}}
{{p|align:right|text of paragraph}}
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> L1 quote
>> L2 quote
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* one
* two
** two alpha
** two beta
* three
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
# two
## two alpha
## two beta
# three
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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