Zwiki vs. Wikia vs. XWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
Version
0.61
N/A
18.4.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
N/A
2026-05-27 (1 day ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
2026-05-27 (1 day ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Python
N/A
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database
N/A
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
free
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
family people, hackers
Hosting Features Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
Storage Quota
N/A
unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
none
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
any
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
Zope
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Writable data directory
Datastorage Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Plugin
N/A
No
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
N/A
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Plugin
N/A
Yes
No
Oracle
Plugin
N/A
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
N/A
No
No
RCS
Unknown
N/A
Plugin
No
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
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
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Common Features Zwiki Wikia 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 Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
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
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Patch
Optional
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
DTML
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Statistics Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
No
Output Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Media and Files Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Zwiki Wikia XWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples Zwiki Wikia 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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
no example known
Text Indentation
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
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
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
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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