| General Features | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
16.3.0
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N/A
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2.3.33
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| Last Release Date |
2024-04-29 (11 days ago)
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N/A
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2024-04-20 (20 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2024-04-30 (10 days ago)
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2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
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2024-04-21 (19 days ago)
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| Author |
XWiki Development Team
|
Wikia, Inc.
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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N/A
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Yes
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| License |
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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N/A
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GPL2+
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| Programming Language |
Java
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N/A
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database, RCS
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N/A
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Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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$0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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N/A
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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All users
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All
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| Hosting Features | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| Storage Quota |
unlimited
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N/A
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited
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N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
none
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N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
Yes
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Yes
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
Yes
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Optional
|
N/A
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| Ads allowed |
No
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Yes
|
N/A
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| System Requirements | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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N/A
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
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No
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| Webserver |
Servlet 3.1+
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N/A
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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| Other Requirements |
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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N/A
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none
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| Datastorage | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
N/A
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Yes
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| MySQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Plugin
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
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| Oracle |
Yes
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N/A
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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N/A
|
No
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| RCS |
Plugin
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N/A
|
Plugin
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| 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
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N/A
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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| Security/Anti-Spam | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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N/A
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Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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| Host Blocking |
No
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Yes
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Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
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| nofollow |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
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Optional
|
Optional
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| Development/Support | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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N/A
|
Yes
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
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||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
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Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Special Features | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
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Optional
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| 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
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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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
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| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Yes
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | XWiki | Wikia | PmWiki |
| 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) |
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[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
|
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
|
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
|
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//Italics// |
|
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
|
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
|
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
--Strike-- |
|
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
|
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
|
'_subscript_' |
| 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 |
|
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
* List ** list *** list |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
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---- |
| remove XWiki | remove Wikia | remove PmWiki |