Wicked vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiNi vs. JSPWiki

General Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Version
2.0.8
1.32.2
16.3.0
0.5.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2017-09-20 (6 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (4 days ago)
2007-04-11 (17 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (3 days ago)
2009-02-09 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
Author
The Horde Project
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL 2
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
Hosting Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Operating System
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Text_Wiki from PEAR
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
Optional
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
None
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
25 different backends
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
1 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
8
German, English, Spanish, Finnish, Japanese, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Chinese
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
French
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Comments
No
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Conflict Handling
None
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
HTML Tags
None
Some
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Yes
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
No
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Optional
Usability Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Statistics Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Analysis
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Output Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
No
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wicked MediaWiki XWiki WikiNi JSPWiki
Internal Link
[a Link]
[namespace:link]
[link With a Title]
[[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)
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://example.com With a Title]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[ ]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
+ Level 1 Heading
++ Level 2 Heading
+++ Level 3 Heading
++++ Level 4 Heading
+++++ Level 5 Heading
++++++ Level 6 Heading
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
** **
__bold__
Italics Format
//italics//
''italic''
//Italics//
// //
''italics''
Underline Format
@@+++ underline @@
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__ __
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
## ##
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
@@--- strikethrough @@
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
@@ @@
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
local.jpg
http://foo.bar/baz.jpg
[http://foo.bar/baz.jpg Alt text]
[[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
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
: indented line
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
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet one
* Sub-bullet
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
-
-
-
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Numero uno
# Number two
# Sub-item
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1)
1)
1)
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: Item 1 : Something
: Item 2 : Something else
; term : definition
; term
: definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
----
----
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