XWiki vs. Zwiki vs. wxWikiServer

General Features XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Version
16.3.0
0.61
1.5.11c
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
2005-12-02 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
2006-02-07 (18 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Ryan Norton
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPLv2
wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
Programming Language
Java
Python
C++
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
NA
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
End users/Desktop
Hosting Features XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
any
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
Zope
built-in
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
None
Datastorage XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Text Files
No
Plugin
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
No
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
No
SQLite
No
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Plugin
Unknown
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
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
unknown
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Patch
No
Development/Support XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Links XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Patch
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Optional
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
DTML
no
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Patch
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Unknown
Statistics XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
No
Output XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Extras XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Zwiki wxWikiServer
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)
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
CamelCase
[AnotherLink goto alink]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
http://www.powerslave.com
[http://www.external.com xternallink]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
= heading =
== heading ==
=== heading ===
(up to 5 = signs).
Bold Format
**bold**
''' bold text '''
Italics Format
//Italics//
'' italic text ''
Underline Format
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
start line with blank space.
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,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
ilocal://icon.jpg
img:icon.jpg
img:http://www.external/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
] centred text
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
> single indent 
>> two indents
>>> more indenting
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* one
* two
* two.1
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1 item one
2 item two
Or: 
# item 1
## item 1.1
# item two
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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