Papyrs vs. XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. Drupal Wiki

General Features Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Version
N/A
18.3.0
N/A
8.37
Last Release Date
N/A
2026-04-27 (24 days ago)
N/A
2025-06-05 (11 months ago)
Last Update here
2020-08-06 (5 years ago)
2026-04-28 (23 days ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2025-06-12 (11 months ago)
Author
Stunf BV
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
https://kontextwork.de
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
Commercial
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Different licences
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Companies, teams and professionals.
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
Enterprise
Hosting Features Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Storage Quota
161061273600
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
Other Limits
None
Topic Restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
Yes
No
System Requirements Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
N/A
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
N/A
Apache, nginx
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ACL
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
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
No
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
No
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Development/Support Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
No
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
2
German, English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
Widgets
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
Yes
Statistics Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
No
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Output Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Media and Files Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Papyrs XWiki PBwiki Drupal Wiki
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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
External Link
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
Headlines
## Heading
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
Italics Format
*italic*
//Italics//
''italics''
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Monospace Format
`mono`
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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

[^1] some definition
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Horizontal Rule
***
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(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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