XWiki vs. Drupal Wiki

General Features XWiki Drupal Wiki
Version
16.3.0
8.26
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
2023-05-31 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2023-06-05 (10 months ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
https://kontextwork.de
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial
Programming Language
Java
Java
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Different licences
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise
Hosting Features XWiki Drupal Wiki
Storage Quota
Bandwidth Quota
Other Limits
Topic Restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
No
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
System Requirements XWiki Drupal Wiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, nginx
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage XWiki Drupal Wiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
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 Drupal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
Development/Support XWiki Drupal Wiki
# 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 Drupal Wiki
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 Drupal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links XWiki Drupal Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Drupal Wiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Widgets
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki Drupal Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Statistics XWiki Drupal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Output XWiki Drupal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Yes
No
Media and Files XWiki Drupal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki Drupal Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Optional
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples XWiki Drupal Wiki
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)
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bold Format
**bold**
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
Italics Format
//Italics//
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Underline Format
__underline__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Monospace Format
##monospace##
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Horizontal Rule
----
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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