XWiki vs. wxWikiServer vs. WikiNi

General Features XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
Version
18.7.0
1.5.11c
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2026-08-31 (12 days ago)
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-08-31 (12 days ago)
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
GPL
Programming Language
Java
C++
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
NA
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End users/Desktop
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
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 wxWikiServer WikiNi
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
built-in
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
Text Files
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
unknown
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Unknown
nofollow
No
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Patch
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
No
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
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
1
English
1
French
Email notification
Yes
No
Plugin
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Unknown
Namespaces
Yes
No
Patch
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
HTML Tags
All
All
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
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
no
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Patch
Usability XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
No
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Unknown
No
Statistics XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
No
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras XWiki wxWikiServer WikiNi
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 wxWikiServer WikiNi
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)
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
[[ ]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
**bold**
''' bold text '''
** **
Italics Format
//Italics//
'' italic text ''
// //
Underline Format
__underline__
__ __
Monospace Format
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
## ##
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
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
] centred text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* one
* two
* two.1
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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