Papyrs vs. Wikia vs. Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Foswiki

General Features Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Version
N/A
N/A
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
2.1.8
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
Last Update here
2020-08-06 (3 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
Author
Stunf BV
Wikia, Inc.
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
Java
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database
Files
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
$0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
0
$0
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Companies, teams and professionals.
All users
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
All
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
Hosting Features Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Storage Quota
161061273600
unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Other
N/A
N/A
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
97 ⭐
Common Features Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
1
English
0
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript
Yes
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
No
Syntax Examples Papyrs Wikia Confluence DokuWiki PmWiki Foswiki
Internal Link
[Link](/page)
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
## Heading
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Italics Format
*italic*
_italics_
//italics//
''italic''
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
+underline+
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
`mono`
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
~~strikethrough~~
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
- list
- list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. list
2. list
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Plugin
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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