Zwiki vs. JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Version
0.61
2.11.0
16.3.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
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
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
Optional
No
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
0
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
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
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
DTML
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
No
No
Yes
Optional
Output Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki JSPWiki XWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki: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]]
External Link
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.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
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]]
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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