Zwiki vs. UseMod vs. XWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Version
0.61
1.2.2
18.4.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2026-05-27 (1 day ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2026-05-27 (1 day ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Clifford Adams
XWiki Development Team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Perl
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
family people, hackers
Hosting Features Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
any
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Servlet 5.0+
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Writable data directory
Datastorage Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Oracle
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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 UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
0
0
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Patch
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
DTML
None
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
No
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Statistics Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
No
Output Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
No
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples Zwiki UseMod XWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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)
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
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..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
N/A
--Strike--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
Images
http://url.com/pic.gif
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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
N/A
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
no example known
Text Indentation
: indented
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
;Term:Definition
; term
: definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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