Zwiki vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Version
0.61
16.2.0
1.32.2
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
all
Any
Hosting Features Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
any
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
Optional
Yes
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
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
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Yes
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
No
Yes
No
Development/Support Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Links Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
Plugin
No
No
No
Scripting
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Optional
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Output Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki XWiki MediaWiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</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]]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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