Wikidot vs. PukiWiki vs. Wikia vs. XWiki

General Features Wikidot 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
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
PukiWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
AGPLv3
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
Database
Files
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
$0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
One theme, one PukiWiki
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
unlimited
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
none
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
System Requirements Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Operating System
OS independent
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
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 Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
N/A
No
MySQL
Unknown
No
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
N/A
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
N/A
No
RCS
Unknown
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 Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
Yes
Patch
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
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
N/A
Common Features Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Links Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Optional
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Patch
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
HTML Tags
None
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Optional
No
Statistics Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Output Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wikidot PukiWiki Wikia XWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
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://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold text**
''bold''
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic text//
'''italic'''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined text__
%%%underlined%%%
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
N/A
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
%%strikethrough%%
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
N/A
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
N/A
,,subscript,,
Images
[[image src="..."]]
#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
= Centered line
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
N/A
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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