BrainKeeper vs. EditMe vs. PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. Wikia

General Features BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Version
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16.2.0
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Last Release Date
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2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
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Last Update here
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
EditMe, LLC
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
URL
Free and Open Source
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Yes
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License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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Programming Language
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Java
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Data Storage
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N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
From $4.95/mo
Determined by Solution Needs
0
$0
Development status
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N/A
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
Hosting Features BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Storage Quota
Unlimited
25MB to 4GB
No limit
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
1GB to 25GB
No limit
unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
None
none
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
None
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ads allowed
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Operating System
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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Root Access
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
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Webserver
N/A
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Text Files
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
MySQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
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Oracle
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
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SQLite
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
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RCS
N/A
N/A
N/A
Plugin
N/A
Other
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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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Host Blocking
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
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Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Links BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
All
Some
Math formulas
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Optional
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
No
No
Optional
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Usability BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Section Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
No
Optional
Statistics BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper EditMe PBwiki XWiki Wikia
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
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
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italics''
//Italics//
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
[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
Use WYSIWYG editor
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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