JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. GWiki

General Features JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
Version
2.11.0
16.3.1
1.32.2
2.4.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Roger Rene Kommer
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Hosting Features JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
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 JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
All Java Servlet Container, included
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Java 1.8+
Datastorage JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
Text Files
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Optional
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
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
Google Datastore
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
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
Internal and external with adapter
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
4 ⭐
Common Features JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
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
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
No
Output JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Media and Files JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki GWiki
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]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
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.com]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
*Bold Format*
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
_Italic format_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
+Unterlined+
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{Monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
-StrikeThrough-
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<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]]
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
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
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
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 2
## Sub Item
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
; term : definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Horizontal Rule
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