Zoho Wiki vs. XWiki vs. Wikia

General Features Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Version
N/A
17.10.0
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Last Release Date
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2025-11-24 (18 days ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2010-10-07 (15 years ago)
2025-11-25 (17 days ago)
2013-02-18 (12 years ago)
Author
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
0
$0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
Hosting Features Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Storage Quota
Unlimited
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
unlimited
Other Limits
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
none
Topic Restrictions
No restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
System Requirements Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
Other
N/A
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Development/Support Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
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
Yes
No
Special Features Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, 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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Textile Support
Unknown
No
Optional
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
not allowed
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
Content Includes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Usability Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Section Editing
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Plugin
No
Optional
Statistics Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Unknown
Yes
No
Analysis
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Output Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Extras Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zoho Wiki XWiki Wikia
Internal Link
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
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
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
Italics Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
//Italics//
Underline Format
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underline__
Monospace Format
WYSIWYG
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
WYSIWYG
--Strike--
Superscript Format
WYSIWYG
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
WYSIWYG
,,subscript,,
Images
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
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
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
WYSIWYG
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
WYSIWYG
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
WYSIWYG
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
WYSIWYG
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