PBwiki vs. EditMe vs. Wikia vs. XWiki

General Features PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Version
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16.3.1
Last Release Date
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2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
Author
PBworks
EditMe, LLC
Wikia, Inc.
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
Determined by Solution Needs
From $4.95/mo
$0
0
Development status
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Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
25MB to 4GB
unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
1GB to 25GB
unlimited
Other Limits
None
None
none
Topic Restrictions
None
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
System Requirements PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Operating System
N/A
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
SQLite
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
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 PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
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
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
No
Blacklist
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Yes
Development/Support PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
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
Common Features PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Links PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
Javascript
JavaScript
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Usability PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
Yes
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
No
Statistics PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples PBwiki EditMe Wikia XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
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://www.externallink.com]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
Use WYSIWYG editor
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
Use WYSIWYG editor
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
Use WYSIWYG editor
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
Use WYSIWYG editor
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
Use WYSIWYG editor
,,subscript,,
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
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
<left>, <center>, <right>
Use WYSIWYG editor
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Indented block
Use WYSIWYG editor
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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