PBwiki vs. Wikia vs. XWiki vs. Wikidot vs. EditMe

General Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Version
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16.2.0
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Last Release Date
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2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
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Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-03-25 (30 days ago)
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Michal Frackowiak
EditMe, LLC
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
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License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPLv3
N/A
Programming Language
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Java
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Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
$0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
From $4.95/mo
Development status
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N/A
Mature
Mature
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Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Hosting Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Storage Quota
No limit
unlimited
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
25MB to 4GB
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
unlimited
no limit
1GB to 25GB
Other Limits
None
none
max uploaded file size limit
None
Topic Restrictions
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
by Terms Of Service
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
System Requirements PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
Unknown
N/A
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Unknown
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
N/A
Yes
Unknown
N/A
SQLite
N/A
N/A
No
Unknown
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
Unknown
N/A
RCS
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Unknown
N/A
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
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
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
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
N/A
Common Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
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 EditMe
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
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
None
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Javascript
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Usability PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Statistics PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
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
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
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]]]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
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://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
+++ headline level 3
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold text**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
//italic text//
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined text__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
{{monospaced text}}
Use WYSIWYG editor
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
--strikethrough text--
Use WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Use WYSIWYG editor
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="..."]]
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
= Centered line
Use WYSIWYG editor
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.
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* element 1
* element 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# element 1
# element 1
Use WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
: item : description
Use WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
Use WYSIWYG editor
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