PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. Wikia vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. MoinMoin

General Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Version
N/A
16.2.0
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
1.9.11
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
Author
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Wikia, Inc.
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
Files
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Determined by Solution Needs
0
$0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All users
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
Hosting Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Storage Quota
No limit
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
None
none
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
none
None
Datastorage PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
No
No
No
Other
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
None
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
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
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
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
0
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
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Links PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Optional
Some
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Yes
Optional, PHP
Optional
plugins, see comment ---------------->
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PBwiki XWiki Wikia DokuWiki MediaWiki MoinMoin
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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
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://example.org The title]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
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 ==
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
''emphasised''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
`monospaced`
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--(strikethrough)--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
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}}
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
Text Indentation
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
: indented line
indented text
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 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
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Plugin
; term : definition
term:: definition
Horizontal Rule
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