Zwiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Version
0.61
18.7.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-08-31 (11 days ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-08-31 (11 days ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Operating System
any
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Text Files
Plugin
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
No
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
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
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Unknown
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
No
Development/Support Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Unknown
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
1
French
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Links Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
No
Scripting
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Usability Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Yes
Toolbar
No
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki XWiki WikiNi
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)
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
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..
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

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
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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