XWiki vs. Roadkill

General Features XWiki Roadkill
Version
18.8.0
1.6
Last Release Date
2026-09-29 (17 days ago)
27/04/2013
Last Update here
2026-09-30 (16 days ago)
2013-04-25 (13 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
C.Small
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MS-PL
Programming Language
Java
C#
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
Hosting Features XWiki Roadkill
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 Roadkill
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Windows Server, Ubuntu
Root Access
No
Yes
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
IIS, Apache
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
Datastorage XWiki Roadkill
Text Files
No
Patch
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
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
SQL Server, MongoDB
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Roadkill
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
Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki Roadkill
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Roadkill
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Special Features XWiki Roadkill
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
3
Czech, English, Polish
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
No
Links XWiki Roadkill
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Syntax Features XWiki Roadkill
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
none
Content Includes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability XWiki Roadkill
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics XWiki Roadkill
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output XWiki Roadkill
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Roadkill
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras XWiki Roadkill
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Roadkill
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)
[[Pagename|linkname]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[URL|linkname]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Large heading
Bold Format
**bold**
** bold **
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
_underline_
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{

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
{{Image.jpg.|title}}
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
* Bullet List
** Sub item
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Numbered list
## Sub item
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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