Zwiki vs. Oddmuse vs. XWiki

General Features Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Version
0.61
2.3.13
18.3.0
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-04-27 (28 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-04-28 (27 days ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Alex Schroeder
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Zwiki Oddmuse 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 Oddmuse XWiki
Operating System
any
Anything supported by Perl
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Writable data directory
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
No
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
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 Oddmuse XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
None (use your web server instead)
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Yes
Development/Support Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Optional
No
Interface Languages
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, 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
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
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 Oddmuse XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
DTML
Perl
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Output Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
No
Yes
Media and Files Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Syntax Examples Zwiki Oddmuse XWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
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.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
--Strike--
Superscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
,,subscript,,
Images
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
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
no example known
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* one
** two
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
Depending on plugins:
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