Features

Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2024/02/14

Base Features

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Page editing
Use simple wiki syntax to format text, create tables, create links, display images, etc. Alternatively use a powerful WYSIWYG editor to edit  the content of pages.

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History
Any change made in XWiki is saved under version control, meaning you can view any previous version of a page, compare different versions or rollback to any past version.

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Navigation
Navigate to wiki pages easily (search, page index, breadcrumb, URL, jump to page, etc).

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Content Organization
Organize your pages by grouping them together by domain.

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Imports
Import content inside XWiki: Office, XWiki pages, Other wiki content, Excel, CSV, etc.

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Exports
Export wiki pages to PDF, ODT, RTF, XML or HTML.

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Programming
Use XWiki's programming API directly into your pages (Velocity or Groovy) to perform advanced formatting, layout or anything really.

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Applications, Extensions & Flavors
Create or use add-ons to your wiki in the form of Applications, Extensions and Flavors.

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RESTful remote API
Use XWiki's RESTful remote API to easily integrate XWiki with your application.

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Database Support
Pages are stored in a relational database. Use your favorite database.

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Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts help you save time since you never have to take your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse.

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Page Lifecycle
Create, Edit, Show, Print, Delete, Copy, Rename, Comment and Send By Mail pages.

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Attachments
Attach as many files as you want to any page. These files can then be referenced and used in page contents.

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Rights Management
Control who can view, edit or delete pages in a flexible manner. Apply rights to a page, children pages or an entire wiki.

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Users and Groups Management
Add, delete and edit the users and groups in your wiki.

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Getting notified
You can stay up to date with changes made to your wiki using RSS feeds, the Notifications application and more.

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Skins
Completely customize page templates, add menus, modify CSS files. You're in complete control of the look & feel.

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Internationalization
Support different translations of your pages and have your users be automatically directed to version in their own language.

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Scalability & Performance
XWiki supports virtual wikis and allows Farms of wikis to be set up easily.

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Document Templates & Forms
Easily creates forms by simple visual editing, attach these forms to pages and query them.

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Authentication
Describes the various authentication mechanisms suported by XWiki (Form, Basic, LDAP, Custom, etc).

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Distribution Wizard
Allows installing and upgrading your XWiki instances automatically.

XWiki Standard Features

XWiki Standard is the Flavor developed by the XWiki Dev Team. It contains the following features (in addition to the base features listed above), which are Extensions installed by default.

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Attachment 
Provides a macro to easily upload and select attachments

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Attachment Picker 
Integration of the attachment picker macro in all XWiki UIs (WYSIWYG Image Dialog)

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Tag 
Tag pages with keywords and navigate your wiki using these keywords

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Bootswatch Themes for Flamingo
Nice Themes for Flamingo created by Bootswatch.

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Extension Manager 
Install/update/remove Extensions in/from the wiki

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Templates 
A collection of content templates

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Skin 
Create, edit and manage Skins

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Search 
Allows searching on the full wiki using wildcards, searching by space, getting search result RSS feeds and more

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Wiki 
Manage subwikis: create and delete subwikis, invite members

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Help 
Provides help within your wiki and showcases the main XWiki features through demo content

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Dashboard 
Provides Wiki and User Dashboards

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User Directory 
Displays a directory of all users in the wiki

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Icon Theme 
Manage and display icons used all over the wiki

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Mail Resender 
Provides a Mail Resending Scheduler job

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Sandbox 
Let people learn XWiki without the risk of breaking anything

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Model Validation UI
Admin UI for Model Validation

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Link Checker 
Displays statuses of external links found in the wiki

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Attachment Validation 
User Interface for the attachments validation

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Annotations 
Add annotations to documents

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Logging 
Review and set logging levels dynamically

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Like 
Like and unlike XWiki entities.

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App Within Minutes 
Create collaborative web applications within minutes, based on XWiki's powerful structured data management system

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Color Themes 
Ability to change skin colors

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CAPTCHA 
Configure which CAPTCHA implementation should your wiki use.

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Rendering Administration 
Select the markup syntaxes that can be used to write page content

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Tour 
Let users create tour guides for any page

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Administration 
Application for administrating wiki features like users, groups, rights etc.

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Application Index 
Displays the list of installed Applications

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Mail 
Administration UI for mail configuration and statuses

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Flamingo Theme 
Visually customize any Flamingo-based skin and preview the results live + Default Themes

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Image Style 
Provide the UI to access the image styles on the Administration.

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PDF Export 
Adds support for exporting wiki pages to PDF on the client-side using the web browser.

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Office Importer 
Import Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations into wiki pages (most major office suite formats are supported)

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Font Awesome Icon Theme
Makes Font Awesome available as an Icon Theme

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Share Page 
Share a wiki page by email

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Syntax Highlighting 
Provides Syntax Highlighting

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What's New 
Provide information about what's new in XWiki

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User Mentions 
Mention users in wiki content.

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XClass 
Helper pages for creating and listing Class/Template/Sheets

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Solr Search 
Allows searching on the wiki using Apache Solr

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JCaptcha 
CAPTCHA implementation using JCaptcha

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User Profile 
Performs operations related to the User Profile (change preferences, user watchlist, follow users, etc)

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Index 
An Index of all pages, attachments, orphans and deleted pages and attachments found in the wiki.

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Scheduler 
Allows scheduling Jobs

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Panels 
Provides placeholders to put content located left or right of the page's content

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CKEditor Integration
Adds support for editing wiki pages using CKEditor.

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Menu 
Menu application

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Notifications 
Display notifications about events happening in the wiki.

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Invitation 
Allows users to send emails, inviting friends and colleagues to join a wiki

Other Features

Other features can be added to your wiki by installing extensions not listed above. Check the Extensions wiki for a full list of available extensions.

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