XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. WikkaWiki

General Features XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Version
16.3.0
1.32.2
2.3.33
1.4.2
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (8 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-20 (17 days ago)
2020-04-19 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (7 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-21 (16 days ago)
2020-04-20 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Wikka Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Hosting Features XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
any server with PHP/MySQL support
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
none
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
Plugin
No
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
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Active Directory (patch)
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
No
Development/Support XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
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
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Patch
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Syntax Features XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Statistics XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Extras XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Blogs
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples XWiki MediaWiki PmWiki WikkaWiki
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]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
##monospaced##
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
++Strike through text++
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_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]]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
: term : definition
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
Horizontal Rule
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