XWiki vs. UseMod vs. PhpWiki vs. TWiki

General Features XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Version
18.4.0
1.2.2
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2026-05-27 (7 days ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-27 (7 days ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Clifford Adams
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Perl
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
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
0
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Links XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Output XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Contents
Extras XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki UseMod PhpWiki TWiki
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)
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
N/A
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
<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
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
N/A
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- 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
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
;Term:Definition
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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----
----
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