XWiki vs. Phonemos

General Features XWiki Phonemos
Version
18.8.0
2026.01
Last Release Date
2026-09-29 (17 days ago)
2026-01-15 (9 months ago)
Last Update here
2026-09-30 (16 days ago)
2026-02-12 (8 months ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
http://www.phonemos.com
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Proprietary
Programming Language
Java
React/Typescript, Scala
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
from USD/EUR/CHF 50.-/mo.
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Businesses
Hosting Features XWiki Phonemos
Storage Quota
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
Other Limits
-
Topic Restrictions
Content must be legal and not discriminatory
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
System Requirements XWiki Phonemos
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Linux, Windows, Unix variants, Kubernetes
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Nginx
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage XWiki Phonemos
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
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 Phonemos
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
SAML2, OIDC, FIDO2
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki Phonemos
# 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 Phonemos
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
No
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Phonemos
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
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
4
German, English, French, Italian
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links XWiki Phonemos
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Syntax Features XWiki Phonemos
HTML Tags
All
None
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
via REST API
Content Includes
Yes
Optional
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability XWiki Phonemos
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics XWiki Phonemos
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output XWiki Phonemos
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Yes
Media and Files XWiki Phonemos
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki Phonemos
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Phonemos
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)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,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
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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