Zwiki vs. XWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki

General Features Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Version
0.61
18.4.0
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-05-27 (2 days ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-05-27 (2 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
0
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
Any
Hosting Features Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Operating System
any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Yes
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
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
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Links Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Output Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
No
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki XWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki
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
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//Italics//
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underline__
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</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)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

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
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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