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

General Features EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Version
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16.8.0
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Last Release Date
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2024-09-29 (6 days ago)
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Last Update here
2010-07-12 (14 years ago)
2010-08-16 (14 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-10-01 (4 days ago)
2008-01-12 (16 years ago)
2020-08-06 (4 years ago)
Author
EditMe, LLC
PBworks
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
BrainKeeper, Inc.
Stunf BV
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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Database, RCS
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License Cost/ Fee
From $4.95/mo
Determined by Solution Needs
$0
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
Development status
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Mature
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Intended Audience
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Business Enterprises
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Companies, teams and professionals.
Hosting Features EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Storage Quota
25MB to 4GB
No limit
unlimited
Unlimited
161061273600
Bandwidth Quota
1GB to 25GB
No limit
unlimited
Unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
none
None
Topic Restrictions
None
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
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 XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Operating System
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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N/A
Root Access
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
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N/A
Webserver
N/A
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
Datastorage EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Text Files
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
MySQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Oracle
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
SQLite
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
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N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
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N/A
RCS
N/A
N/A
N/A
Plugin
N/A
N/A
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
N/A
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
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
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
nofollow
Optional
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Development/Support EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
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
N/A
Common Features EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Special Features EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Unknown
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
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
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
All
Some
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Javascript
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
No
Yes
Optional
Statistics EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
PDF Export
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
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
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples EditMe PBwiki Wikia XWiki BrainKeeper Papyrs
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)
[Link](/page)
External Link
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
Headlines
Use WYSIWYG editor
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
## Heading
Bold Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
''italics''
//Italics//
*italic*
Underline Format
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
`mono`
Strikethrough Format
Use WYSIWYG editor
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
~~strikethrough~~
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
- list
- list
Numbered Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. list
2. list
Definition Lists
Use WYSIWYG editor
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Horizontal Rule
Use WYSIWYG editor
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