WikiPack vs. Wikidot vs. Zoho Wiki vs. PBwiki vs. XWiki

General Features WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Version
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18.0.0
Last Release Date
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N/A
2026-01-27 (3 days ago)
Last Update here
2012-05-23 (13 years ago)
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2010-10-07 (15 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2026-01-28 (2 days ago)
Author
Mark Beattie
Michal Frackowiak
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
AGPLv3
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N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
N/A
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Database
N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free while in open beta
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Individual Markdown geeks & writers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Storage Quota
None (determined by Dropbox plan)
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
Unlimited
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
None
no limit
Unlimited
No limit
Other Limits
None while in open beta
max uploaded file size limit
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
None
Topic Restrictions
None
by Terms Of Service
No restrictions
None
Corporate Branding
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
System Requirements WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
N/A
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
N/A
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Text Files
N/A
Unknown
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
Unknown
N/A
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
Unknown
N/A
N/A
Yes
SQLite
N/A
Unknown
N/A
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Unknown
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
Unknown
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Other
N/A
N/A
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 WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
N/A
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Development/Support WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Preview
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
2
English, Polish
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
No
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Image Links
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
All
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
None
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
not allowed
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Statistics WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Output WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
File Attachments
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Contents
Contents
Extras WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Calendar
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples WikiPack Wikidot Zoho Wiki PBwiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[LinkToSomePage|link to some page]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
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
[Google](http://google.com)
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading etc
+++ headline level 3
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold text**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
_italic_
//italic text//
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
not supported
__underlined text__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
indent 4 spaces (or 2 tabs)
for code blocks
{{monospaced text}}
WYSIWYG
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
not supported
--strikethrough text--
WYSIWYG
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
not supported
^^superscript^^
WYSIWYG
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
not supported
,,subscript,,
WYSIWYG
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
![External image](http://somesite.com/imageurl.jpg)
[[image src="..."]]
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.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
not supported
= Centered line
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> Prefix block quotes with an angled bracket
>> Nest brackets to control indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
WYSIWYG
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* list item one
* list item two
* sub item one
* element 1
* element 2
WYSIWYG
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
1. item one
2. item two
1. Sub item
# element 1
# element 1
WYSIWYG
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
not supported
: item : description
<dl>
</dl>
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
WYSIWYG
---
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