WikyBlog vs. PhpWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Version
1.5.4
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.11.0
16.2.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2007-10-23 (16 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2007-10-24 (16 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
Author
Josh Schmidt
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Java
Java
Python
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Private, Internet Communities
Any
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Hosting Features WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
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
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, anything with PHP
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Zope
Other Requirements
MySQL
various opt. helpers
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Development/Support WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
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 WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
5
English, French, Japanese, Turkish, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
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
0
Email notification
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Scripting
No
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Output WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
No
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples WikyBlog PhpWiki JSPWiki XWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
[http://example.org The title]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
[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
Aligning Text
<center>Centered</center>
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
: indented line
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
%%(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 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
; term : definition
Term:<def>
def
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
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