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JSPWiki vs. XWiki

Comments[4] 08:49AM Jun 25, 2008 by Dave in Social Software

via Jim Grisanzio: Chris Phelan has done evaluations of JSPWiki and XWiki for use on the OpenSolaris.org site. Based on his 32 requirements, XWiki came out on top.

On balance, XWiki wins by virtue of having better support for management, searching, page taxonomies, virtual servers, content export and language translation/localization support.

JSPWiki has slightly better support for identifying orphaned pages and accesskey support (XWiki 1.4 will have support for access keys).

Confluence was not considered because requirement #0 is "the software must be free and open source," which seems like a reasonable request when selecting software for an open source community site.

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Comments:

I am always astonished when folks choose anything other than MediaWiki. Nothing else even comes close in terms of functionality.

Posted by mediaWikiFan on June 25, 2008 at 09:42 AM EDT #

@mediaWikiFan Though MediaWiki doesn't quite match one of the basic requirements of the OpenSolaris.org website, that is, being written in Java ;-)

Posted by Guillaume on June 25, 2008 at 08:18 PM EDT #

Hi, the best (Java based) wiki software is Atlassian's Confluence. It's commercial, but there's also a free Open Source Project License available: http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/licensing.jsp#nonprofit

Posted by Thorleif Wiik on August 03, 2008 at 05:55 AM EDT #

Thorleif, yes, Confluence is a wonderful wiki and Atlassian loves to help open source developers, but it is most definitely not open source. - Dave

Posted by Dave Johnson on August 03, 2008 at 07:00 AM EDT #

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