Wikia vs. DokuWiki vs. PBwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Zoho Wiki vs. XWiki

General Features Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Version
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
N/A
1.32.2
N/A
16.2.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
N/A
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
N/A
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
Andreas Gohr
PBworks
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
GPL 2
N/A
GPL
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
N/A
PHP
N/A
Java
Data Storage
N/A
Files
N/A
Database
N/A
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
personal, small to medium companies
Business Enterprises
End Users/Desktop, Education
Any users. No Download, No Installation
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
No limit
N/A
Unlimited
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
No limit
N/A
Unlimited
Other Limits
none
N/A
None
N/A
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
None
N/A
No restrictions
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
No
System Requirements Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
No
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
N/A
Any with PHP support
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
none
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Text Files
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
No
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
No
N/A
No
N/A
Plugin
Other
N/A
None
N/A
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
N/A
Yes
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
1
English
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
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
Email notification
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Plugin
N/A
Plugin
N/A
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Some
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Optional
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
Yes
Optional, PHP
Javascript
Optional
not allowed
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Statistics Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Output Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wikia DokuWiki PBwiki MediaWiki Zoho Wiki XWiki
Internal Link
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
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)
External Link
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.externallink.com]
[http://example.org The title]
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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====
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
Italics Format
//italics//
''italics''
''italic''
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underline__
Monospace Format
''monospace''
<code>monospace</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
WYSIWYG
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
WYSIWYG
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
WYSIWYG
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
WYSIWYG
,,subscript,,
Images
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[Image:wiki.png]]
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
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
Aligning Text
Plugin
<left>, <center>, <right>
<center>Centered</center>
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
N/A
Indented block
: indented line
WYSIWYG
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
WYSIWYG
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
WYSIWYG
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Plugin
<dl>
</dl>
; term : definition
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
---
----
WYSIWYG
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