TWiki vs XWiki

TWiki is a free, open-source enterprise wiki and collaboration platform for intranets, extranets, and web applications. Its structured content, forms, variables, and plugins let teams build wiki applications and workflows. Users edit pages in a browser, with automatic links, formatting rules, and full-text search that supports regular expressions. TWiki records revisions to pages and attachments, allowing retrieval of earlier versions and comparison of changes. Administrators can set detailed read and write restrictions for users and groups. Plugins extend the software without changing its core, and developers can create them in Perl using the plugin API. The LdapContrib package can connect LDAP authentication, user mapping, and authorization, including LDAP groups in access lists. TWiki is installed on a web server; its production guide covers Apache on Linux and points to guidance for other environments. Requirements include Perl 5, shell commands, and RCS, with possible additional needs for plugins. Released under the GNU General Public License, it runs across Linux, macOS, Windows, and web environments. Support is not included; documentation, a user forum, an IRC channel, and consultants are listed.

XWiki is an open-source enterprise wiki and knowledge-management platform for collaboration, document management and structured data. It can be used for knowledge bases, collaborative intranets, public websites and business applications, with publishing for internal or external audiences. Editors can work in wiki syntax or a WYSIWYG interface, while version control allows earlier pages to be compared or restored. Page rights can govern viewing, editing and deletion at the page, child-page or whole-wiki level. More than 900 extensions include applications, macros, skins, plugins and themes. Listed connectors include Active Directory, Office 365, Google Apps and OnlyOffice; a RESTful API supports integration with other applications. XWiki is available as a self-hosted installation or through XWiki Cloud. Its Community edition is self-hosted and open source; cloud plans list capacities from 25 users to unlimited users. XWiki Cloud's 10-day demo trial can be extended twice. Cloud service is hosted in France on OVHcloud and includes backups, monitoring, antivirus scanning and security maintenance. If storage exceeds a plan allowance, wiki actions may be limited to viewing pages.