Papyrs vs. XWiki vs. EditMe vs. PBwiki vs. Wikia

General Features Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Version
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17.10.2
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Last Release Date
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2025-12-30 (2 days ago)
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Last Update here
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
2025-12-30 (2 days ago)
2010-07-12 (15 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2013-02-18 (12 years ago)
Author
Stunf BV
XWiki Development Team
EditMe, LLC
PBworks
Wikia, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
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Yes
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License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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Programming Language
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Java
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Data Storage
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Database, RCS
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License Cost/ Fee
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
From $4.95/mo
Determined by Solution Needs
$0
Development status
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Mature
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Intended Audience
Companies, teams and professionals.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Business Enterprises
All users
Hosting Features Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Storage Quota
161061273600
25MB to 4GB
No limit
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
No limit
unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
none
Topic Restrictions
None
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
System Requirements Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Operating System
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Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
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Root Access
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No
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Webserver
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Datastorage Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Text Files
N/A
No
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N/A
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
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N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
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N/A
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
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N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
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N/A
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other
N/A
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
N/A
N/A
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
N/A
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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N/A
Common Features Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
1
English
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Links Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
HTML Tags
All
All
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Optional
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Javascript
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Usability Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
No
Optional
Statistics Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Papyrs XWiki EditMe PBwiki Wikia
Internal Link
[Link](/page)
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
External Link
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
## Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Use WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
Italics Format
*italic*
//Italics//
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
Monospace Format
`mono`
##monospace##
Use WYSIWYG editor
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
--Strike--
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Use WYSIWYG editor
Indented block
Bulleted Lists
- list
- list
* List
** list
*** list
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Use WYSIWYG editor
# Number #1
# Number #2
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
; term
: definition
Use WYSIWYG editor
<dl>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
***
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Use WYSIWYG editor
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