Wikia vs. PukiWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Version
N/A
1.5.1
18.5.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
PukiWiki Development Team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
One theme, one PukiWiki
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
No
System Requirements Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Operating System
N/A
OS independent
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
No
MySQL
N/A
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
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 Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
0
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
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
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
No
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
No
Yes
Links Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Optional
No
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Yes
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
Statistics Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Output Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras Wikia PukiWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wikia PukiWiki 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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