XWiki vs. Wikia vs. MediaWiki vs. TWiki

General Features XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Version
16.2.0
N/A
1.32.2
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
N/A
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
Java
N/A
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
End Users/Desktop, Education
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Any with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
N/A
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
SQLite
No
N/A
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
Plugin
N/A
No
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
N/A
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Yes
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Development/Support XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
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
N/A
Common Features XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Optional
No
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
Optional
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Statistics XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Keywords
Contents
Extras XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Wikia MediaWiki TWiki
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]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
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