| General Features | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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N/A
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16.2.0
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
|
| Last Release Date |
N/A
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N/A
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2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
|
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
|
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
|
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
| Author |
PBworks
|
Wikia, Inc.
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
N/A
|
N/A
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
AGPLv3
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
N/A
|
N/A
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Java
|
PHP
|
|
| Data Storage |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Database, RCS
|
Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Determined by Solution Needs
|
$0
|
0
|
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
0
|
| Development status |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Business Enterprises
|
All users
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| Hosting Features | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| Storage Quota |
No limit
|
unlimited
|
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
No limit
|
unlimited
|
no limit
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
None
|
none
|
max uploaded file size limit
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
None
|
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
by Terms Of Service
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Servlet 3.1+
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
||
| Datastorage | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other |
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
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
N/A
|
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
N/A
|
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
|
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
| Common Features | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| 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
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
2
English, Polish |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
All
|
None
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Javascript
|
Yes
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | PBwiki | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
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) |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
|
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
|
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
+++ headline level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
|
**bold** |
**bold text** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
|
//Italics// |
//italic text// |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
|
__underline__ |
__underlined text__ |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
<code>monospace</code> |
|
##monospace## |
{{monospaced text}} |
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
|
--Strike-- |
--strikethrough text-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
^^superscript^^ |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
,,subscript,, |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[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 |
[[image src="..."]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
= Centered line |
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
Indented block |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
|
* List ** list *** list |
* element 1 * element 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
|
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# element 1 # element 1 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
<dl> </dl> |
|
; term : definition |
: item : description |
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- |
|
---- |
---- |
---- |
| remove PBwiki | remove Wikia | remove XWiki | remove Wikidot | remove DokuWiki |