XWiki vs. PmWiki vs. UseMod

General Features XWiki PmWiki UseMod
Version
18.4.1
2.6.0
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2026-06-15 (7 days ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-06-16 (6 days ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Hosting Features XWiki PmWiki UseMod
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 PmWiki UseMod
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage XWiki PmWiki UseMod
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki PmWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
No
Yes
Patch
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Patch
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support XWiki PmWiki UseMod
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki PmWiki UseMod
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features XWiki PmWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links XWiki PmWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki PmWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Usability XWiki PmWiki UseMod
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki PmWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Patch
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output XWiki PmWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki PmWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras XWiki PmWiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PmWiki UseMod
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)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
N/A
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
N/A
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
: term : definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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