MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. KeheiWiki

General Features MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Version
1.32.2
16.3.0
Pleiades-M45
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
2005-03-21 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2009-12-23 (14 years ago)
Author
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
LGPL
Programming Language
PHP
Java
Perl
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
corporate and special interest groups
Hosting Features MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
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 MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Unix/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Other Requirements
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
perl 4 or newer
Datastorage MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Plugin
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
No
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
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
Security/Anti-Spam MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Apache
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
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
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
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Keywords
Extras MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
No
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples MediaWiki XWiki KeheiWiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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)
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Italics Format
''italic''
//Italics//
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Strikethrough Format
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
; term : definition
; term
: definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
remove MediaWiki remove XWiki remove KeheiWiki