Wikia vs. DokuWiki vs. Foswiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Version
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.1.8
1.32.2
16.2.0
2.3.33
Last Release Date
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2024-04-20 (5 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2024-04-21 (4 days ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
Andreas Gohr
Foswiki Community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
Perl
PHP
Java
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
$0
0
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
personal, small to medium companies
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Hosting Features Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
N/A
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Other
N/A
None
caching of content into database using plugins
No
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
97 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Yes
Optional, PHP
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Media and Files Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples Wikia DokuWiki Foswiki MediaWiki XWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
*bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italics//
_italic_
''italic''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
----
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