XWiki vs. Wiki.js vs. Pwic.wiki

General Features XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
Version
18.0.0
2.5.299
1.2
Last Release Date
2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
2023-06-03 (2 years ago)
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
Last Update here
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
2023-07-30 (2 years ago)
2024-06-24 (1 year ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Nicolas Giard
Team Pwic.wiki
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPL-v3
GNU Affero General Public License version 3
Programming Language
Java
Javascript
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database, Files, other, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Everyone
Personal, IT consultancy, Software development, Small to medium companies
Hosting Features XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
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 Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
All
Linux, Windows, MacOS
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
All
Stand-alone (Python aiohttp)
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Node.js
Datastorage XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Optional
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
Compatible with MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL or SQLite
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
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
Local (built-in), Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Azure AD, LDAP, OpenConnectID, Slack, Discord, Auth0, Keycloak, Okta, etc.
Salted password, OAuth2 (Google, Microsoft, Github), 2FA TOTP
Host Blocking
No
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Patch
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Development/Support XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Optional
Change Summary
Yes
No
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
Yes
Special Features XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
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
54
Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Cambodian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
3
German, English, French
Email notification
Yes
No
Patch
Comments
Threaded
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
No
No
Links XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Patch
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Features XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Optional
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JS, CSS
External API for automation and bots
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
No
Usability XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Optional
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Optional
Statistics XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Patch
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
No
Optional
Media and Files XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
No
Presentations
Plugin
No
No
Forums
Plugin
No
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Plugin
No
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Wiki.js Pwic.wiki
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)
[Link Title](/link/to/page)
[Paragraph](#p_1_1)
[Page](/project/page)
[Attachment](/special/document/1)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Link Title](https://wiki.js.org)
[Link](https://pwic.wiki/en)
<https://pwic.wiki/en>
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3
# Title 1
## Title 2
### Title 3
Bold Format
**bold**
**Bold Text**
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
*Italic Text*
*italics*
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>Underline Text</u>
--underline--
Monospace Format
##monospace##
`Monospace Code`
`keyword`

```python
print('Block of code')
```
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
~~Strikethrough Text~~
~~strikethrough~~
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^Superscript Text^
x<sup>2</sup> (trick)
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
~Subscript Text~
x<sub>2</sub> (trick)
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 Title](/path/to/image.png)
![Caption](/special/document/1 "Image").
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
> Block line 1
> Block line 2
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
- Item 1
- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. Line 1
2. Line 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
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