XWiki vs. UseMod

General Features XWiki UseMod
Version
18.4.0
1.2.2
Last Release Date
2026-05-27 (7 days ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-27 (7 days ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Clifford Adams
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features XWiki UseMod
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 UseMod
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage XWiki UseMod
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki UseMod
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
No
Patch
Blacklist
Plugin
Patch
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki UseMod
# 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 UseMod
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
No
Special Features XWiki UseMod
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Links XWiki UseMod
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki UseMod
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
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
No
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Usability XWiki UseMod
Section Editing
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics XWiki UseMod
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output XWiki UseMod
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki UseMod
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras XWiki UseMod
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki 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)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
N/A
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,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
http://url.com/pic.gif
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
N/A
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* 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
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
;Term:Definition
Horizontal Rule
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