XWiki vs. BlueSpice MediaWiki

General Features XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Version
16.3.1
3.2
Last Release Date
2024-05-09 (11 days ago)
2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-05-13 (7 days ago)
2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Hallo Welt! GmbH
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv3
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Hosting Features XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
System Requirements XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows
Root Access
No
Yes
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
Datastorage XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
Other
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
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Interface Languages
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
30
Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Links XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Java Script
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Yes
Optional
Media and Files XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Extras XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Optional
Chat
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Examples XWiki BlueSpice MediaWiki
Internal 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]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
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]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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