PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wikia vs. EditMe

General Features PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Version
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16.3.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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Last Release Date
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2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
Author
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Wikia, Inc.
EditMe, LLC
URL
Free and Open Source
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Yes
Yes
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License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
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N/A
Programming Language
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Java
PHP
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Data Storage
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Database, RCS
Files
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N/A
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
$0
From $4.95/mo
Development status
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Mature
Mature
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N/A
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
All users
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Hosting Features PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
unlimited
25MB to 4GB
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
unlimited
1GB to 25GB
Other Limits
None
N/A
none
None
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
System Requirements PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
Datastorage PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
N/A
N/A
Other
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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
N/A
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
N/A
N/A
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
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
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia 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
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
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
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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
0
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Plugin
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Yes
JavaScript
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Usability PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PBwiki XWiki DokuWiki Wikia 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)
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[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..
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
//italics//
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
''monospace''
Use WYSIWYG editor
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
Use WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
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
N/A
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Plugin
Use WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
Use WYSIWYG editor
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