| General Features | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
0.61
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1.45.3
|
18.5.0
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| Last Release Date |
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (7 months ago)
|
2026-06-29 (21 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
|
2026-06-03 (1 month ago)
|
2026-06-29 (21 days ago)
|
| Author |
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPLv2
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GPL
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
| Programming Language |
Python
|
PHP
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
| Hosting Features | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| 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 |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| Operating System |
any
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Zope
|
Any with PHP support
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
|
| Datastorage | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
ZODB (zope object database)
|
No
|
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 | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
|
Yes
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#zwiki on freenode
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
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 |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Patch
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
DTML
|
Optional
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Patch
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Output | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | Zwiki | MediaWiki | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiName [freeform name] [[double-bracketed]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
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 |
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.. |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
|
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
|
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
|
''italic'' |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
|
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
[[Image:wiki.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 |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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