Zwiki vs. Wikia vs. XWiki

General Features Zwiki Wikia XWiki
Version
0.61
N/A
18.4.0
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
N/A
2026-05-27 (2 days ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
2026-05-27 (2 days ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPLv2
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
Python
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Zwiki Wikia XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
none
Topic Restrictions
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements Zwiki Wikia XWiki
Operating System
any
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Zope
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Zwiki Wikia XWiki
Text Files
Plugin
N/A
No
MySQL
Plugin
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
N/A
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
N/A
No
RCS
Unknown
N/A
Plugin
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
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
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki Wikia XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Zwiki Wikia XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zwiki Wikia 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
No
Yes
Special Features Zwiki Wikia XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
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
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
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links Zwiki Wikia XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Optional
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki Wikia XWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Yes
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
DTML
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability Zwiki Wikia XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics Zwiki Wikia 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
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output Zwiki Wikia XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Zwiki Wikia XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras Zwiki Wikia XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Zwiki Wikia XWiki
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)
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
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Images
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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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