| General Features | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
16.2.0
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N/A
|
5.2
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
|
N/A
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2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
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2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
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2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
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2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
XWiki Development Team
|
Wikia, Inc.
|
Atlassian
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
N/A
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
GPL 2
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GPL
|
| Programming Language |
Java
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N/A
|
Java
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, RCS
|
N/A
|
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
$0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
All users
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
| Hosting Features | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
||
| Other Limits |
none
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
|
N/A
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Servlet 3.1+
|
N/A
|
Apache Tomcat
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
N/A
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
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
|
N/A
|
None
|
No
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
N/A
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Development/Support | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
|
||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
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 |
0
|
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, 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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Yes
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
Optional, PHP
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Output | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | XWiki | Wikia | Confluence | DokuWiki | 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) |
|
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
|
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
|
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
|
*bold* |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//Italics// |
|
_italics_ |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
|
+underline+ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
|
{{monospace}} |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
--Strike-- |
|
-strikethrough- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
|
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
|
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<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 |
|
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
|
|
Plugin |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
|
|
N/A |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
* List ** list *** list |
|
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
|
# one ## one-two # two # three |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
|
Plugin |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
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---- |
---- |
---- |
| remove XWiki | remove Wikia | remove Confluence | remove DokuWiki | remove MediaWiki |