XWiki vs. Git-Wiki

General Features XWiki Git-Wiki
Version
16.3.0
1.0
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
2022-04-17 (2 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
MIT
Programming Language
Java
Ruby
Data Storage
Database, RCS
RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Private, Public
Hosting Features XWiki Git-Wiki
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 Git-Wiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Ruby webserver (Mongrel, Unicorn, Thin, Webrick)
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Ruby
Datastorage XWiki Git-Wiki
Text Files
No
No
MySQL
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
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
Git
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Git-Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Plugin system, backends can be added
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Blacklist
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki Git-Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
242 ⭐
Common Features XWiki Git-Wiki
Preview
Yes
Plugin
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Plugin
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Git-Wiki
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
4
Czech, German, English, French
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
No
Categories
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Links XWiki Git-Wiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki Git-Wiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
XML based, Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability XWiki Git-Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics XWiki Git-Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output XWiki Git-Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Git-Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki Git-Wiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Git-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)
[[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

or

== 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.png}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
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
Horizontal Rule
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