XWiki vs. UseMod vs. Zwiki

General Features XWiki UseMod Zwiki
Version
18.4.0
1.2.2
0.61
Last Release Date
2026-05-27 (7 days ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-27 (7 days ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Clifford Adams
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Java
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features XWiki UseMod Zwiki
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 UseMod Zwiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Zope
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage XWiki UseMod Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
No
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
No
Unknown
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki UseMod Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
No
Patch
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Patch
Development/Support XWiki UseMod Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki UseMod Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Special Features XWiki UseMod Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Optional
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Threaded
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Unknown
No
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links XWiki UseMod Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki UseMod Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Optional
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
None
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Usability XWiki UseMod Zwiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Statistics XWiki UseMod Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output XWiki UseMod Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Patch
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki UseMod Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras XWiki UseMod Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki UseMod Zwiki
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
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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