EditMe vs. PBwiki vs. Wikia vs. BrainKeeper vs. Zoho Wiki vs. XWiki

General Features EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Version
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16.2.0
Last Release Date
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2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (26 days ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
PBworks
Wikia, Inc.
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
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Yes
License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
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Java
Data Storage
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Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
Determined by Solution Needs
$0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
0
Development status
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Mature
Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Business Enterprises
All users
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
No limit
unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
No limit
unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
none
None
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
Topic Restrictions
None
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
No Restrictions
No restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
System Requirements EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Operating System
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
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No
Webserver
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Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
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Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Text Files
N/A
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No
MySQL
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Yes
PostgreSQL
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Yes
Oracle
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Yes
SQLite
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No
BerkeleyDB
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No
RCS
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Plugin
Other
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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 EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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N/A
N/A
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N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
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Yes
Code Repository
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N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
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N/A
Common Features EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
0
1
English
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
JavaScript
Javascript
Yes
not allowed
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Usability EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Output EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Extras EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples EditMe PBwiki Wikia BrainKeeper Zoho Wiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
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]
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[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
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italics''
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
//Italics//
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underline__
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<code>monospace</code>
WYSIWYG
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
WYSIWYG
--Strike--
Superscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
WYSIWYG
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
WYSIWYG
,,subscript,,
Images
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
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>
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Use WYSIWYG editor
Indented block
WYSIWYG
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
WYSIWYG
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
# Number #1
# Number #2
WYSIWYG
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
<dl>
</dl>
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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