PukiWiki vs. Wikia vs. XWiki

General Features PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Version
1.5.1
N/A
18.6.0
Last Release Date
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
N/A
2026-07-27 (3 days ago)
Last Update here
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
Author
PukiWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
Java
Data Storage
Files
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
One theme, one PukiWiki
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
unlimited
Other Limits
N/A
none
Topic Restrictions
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Operating System
OS independent
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
N/A
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
No
MySQL
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
No
N/A
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
RCS
No
N/A
Plugin
Other
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
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
Security/Anti-Spam PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
0
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
No
Unknown
Yes
Links PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Optional
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Patch
No
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Yes
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Section Editing
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Statistics PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Internal Link
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
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)
External Link
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
'''italic'''
//Italics//
Underline Format
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
N/A
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
%%strikethrough%%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
N/A
,,subscript,,
Images
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
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
Aligning Text
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
:term|definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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