MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. TracWiki

General Features MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Version
1.32.2
2.11.0
16.3.1
0.11.5
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Edgewall Software
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Modified BSD license
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Software development teams
Hosting Features MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
Other Requirements
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
Datastorage MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
No
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
0
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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 MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
141
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, Javanese, 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
Email notification
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
yes, using Python
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Usability MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
No
Statistics MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
No
Yes
No
Output MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
No
Extras MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki JSPWiki XWiki TracWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[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)
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
Bold Format
'''bold'''
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
~~strike-through~~
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[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(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
%%(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
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 1
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
Definition Lists
; term : definition
;term:definition
; term
: definition
term::
definition
Horizontal Rule
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