Outline vs XWiki

Both are self-hosted wikis projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Outline scores 92 against XWiki's 85, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — XWiki may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
OutlineXWiki
Health score 92/100 85/100
Commits (11 mo) 1943 3160
Commits (last 3 mo) 688 1101
Stars 41k 1.3k
Latest release 9 Sept 2026 17 Sept 2026
Licence BUSL-1.1 LGPL-2.1
Built with Nodejs, Docker Java, Docker, deb
Typical RAM 2 GB 2 GB

Outline

Extensible wiki for your team.

92/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 89% of tracked projects; popularity more than 95%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 138 commits 2025-11: 110 commits 2025-12: 155 commits 2026-01: 148 commits 2026-02: 149 commits 2026-03: 146 commits 2026-04: 208 commits 2026-05: 201 commits 2026-06: 196 commits 2026-07: 230 commits 2026-08: 262 commits

XWiki

Second generation wiki that allows the user to extend its functionalities with a powerful extension-based architecture.

85/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 38/40
Releases 25/25
Community 8/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 94% of tracked projects; popularity more than 39%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 263 commits 2025-11: 224 commits 2025-12: 180 commits 2026-01: 408 commits 2026-02: 154 commits 2026-03: 219 commits 2026-04: 179 commits 2026-05: 432 commits 2026-06: 298 commits 2026-07: 465 commits 2026-08: 338 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted wikis.