PBwiki vs. Wikia vs. XWiki vs. Wikidot vs. TWiki

General Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
Version
N/A
N/A
16.2.0
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2018-07-15 (5 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)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
PBworks
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Michal Frackowiak
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
Java
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
$0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
N/A
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
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
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 TWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
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
Yes
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
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
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
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Blacklist
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Development/Support PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
# 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
N/A
Common Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
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 TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Optional
Structured Data
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
None
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Javascript
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
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
Plugin
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
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki Wikia XWiki Wikidot TWiki
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]]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold text**
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
//italic text//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined text__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
{{monospaced text}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
--strikethrough text--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
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="..."]]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
= Centered line
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
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.
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
: item : description
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
---
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