Zim vs. XWiki

General Features Zim XWiki
Version
0.56
18.7.0
Last Release Date
2012-04-02 (14 years ago)
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
Last Update here
2012-07-16 (14 years ago)
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
Author
Jaap Karssenberg
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
Java
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private users, small teams
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Zim XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
No
System Requirements Zim XWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OSX
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
None
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Zim XWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Other
Text Files with index in SQLite
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 Zim XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File permissions
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
nofollow
No
No
Blacklist
No
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Development/Support Zim XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zim XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zim XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Interface Languages
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Links Zim XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Syntax Features Zim XWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Scripting
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Usability Zim XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics Zim XWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Output Zim XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Zim XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras Zim XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Zim XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage 
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
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org 
ftp://somehost/share
\\host\share\..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
=== Heading ===
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic//
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
``monospace``
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
~~strike~~
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^{sup}
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
_{sub}
,,subscript,,
Images
{{./image.png}}
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
Aligning Text
not implemented
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
indent with tabs
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* List item
* sub items
* with indent
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. List item
a. with sub items
b. ...
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
not implemented
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
not implemented
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