Features
Base Features
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 documents.
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.
Imports
Import content inside XWiki: Office, XWiki pages, Other wiki content, Excel, CSV, etc.
Exports
Export wiki pages to PDF, ODT, RTF, XML or HTML.
Content Organization
Organize your Documents by grouping them together by domain.
Programming
Use XWiki's programming API directly into your pages (Velocity or Groovy) to perform advanced formatting, layout or anything really.
Applications, Extensions & Flavors
Create or use add-ons to your wiki in the form of Applications, Extensions and Flavors.
RESTful remote API
Use XWiki's RESTful remote API to easily integrate XWiki with your application.
Database Support
Documents are stored in a relational database. Use your favorite database.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts help you save time since you never have to take your hands off the keyboard to use the mouse.
Document Lifecycle
Create, Edit, Show, Print, Delete, Copy, Rename and Send By Mail documents.
Attachments
Attach as many files as you want to any page. These files can then be referenced and used in page contents.
Rights Management
Control who can view, edit or delete documents in a flexible manner. Apply rights to a document, a space or an entire wiki.
Users and Groups Management
Add, delete and edit the users and groups in your wiki.
Notifications
You can stay up to date with changes made to your wiki using RSS feeds, the Watchlist application and more.
Skins
Completely customize document templates, add menus, modify CSS files. You're in complete control of the look & feel.
Internationalization
Support different translations of your documents and have your users be automatically directed to version in their own language.
Scalability & Performance
XWiki supports virtual wikis and allows Farms of wikis to be set up easily.
Document Templates & Forms
Easily creates forms by simple visual editing, attach these forms to documents and query them.
Authentication
Describes the various authentication mechanisms suported by XWiki (Form, Basic, LDAP, Custom, etc).
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.
Watchlist
Subscribe to pages, spaces and wikis and receive RSS and email notifications when they are modified
Bootswatch Themes for Flamingo
Nice Themes for Flamingo created by Bootswatch.
Extension Manager
Install/update/remove Extensions in/from the wiki
Templates
A collection of content templates
Skin
Create, edit and manage Skins
Help Center
Application that showcases the main XWiki features through demo content.
Search
Allows searching on the full wiki using wildcards, searching by space, getting search result RSS feeds and more
Message Stream
Macro to display a message stream
Help
Provides help within your wiki
Dashboard
Provides Wiki and User Dashboards
User Directory
Displays a directory of all users in the wiki
Icon Theme
Manage and display icons used all over the wiki
Sandbox
Let people learn XWiki without the risk of breaking anything
Activity Stream
Display all activity in the wiki or farm
Link Checker
Displays states of external links found in the wiki
Annotations
Add annotations to documents
App Within Minutes
Create collaborative web applications within minutes, based on XWiki's powerful structured data management system
Color Themes
Ability to change skin colors
Mail
Administration UI for mail configuration and statuses
Rendering Administration
Select the markup syntaxes that can be used to write page content
Tour
Let users create tour guides for any page
Administration
Application for administrating wiki features like users, groups, rights etc.
Application Index
Displays the list of installed Applications
Flamingo Theme
Visually customize any Flamingo-based skin and preview the results live + Default Themes
Font Awesome Icon Theme
Makes Font Awesome available as an Icon Theme
Share Page
Share a wiki page by email
Attachment
Provides a macro to easily upload and select attachments
Wiki Macro List
Display list of existing wiki macros
XClass
Helper pages for creating and listing Class/Template/Sheets
Solr Search
Allows searching on the wiki using Apache Solr
User Profile
Performs operations related to the User Profile (change preferences, user watchlist, follow users, etc)
Scheduler
Allows scheduling Jobs
Panels
Provides placeholders to put content located left or right of the page's content
CKEditor Integration
Adds support for editing wiki pages using CKEditor.
Notifications
Display notifications about events happening in the wiki.
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.
