JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Version
2.11.0
16.3.0
1.32.2
3.2
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-29 (7 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (16 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-30 (6 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
2024-04-21 (15 days ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Hallo Welt! GmbH
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPLv3
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise + Technical Teams
All
Hosting Features JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Yes
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
none
Datastorage JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Development/Support JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Java Script
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Media and Files JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
; term : definition
; term : definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
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