Wikia vs. PBwiki vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki

General Features Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Version
N/A
N/A
1.32.2
16.3.0
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (14 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (13 days ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
PBworks
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
PHP
Java
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
Business Enterprises
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
none
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
System Requirements Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
Oracle
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
SQLite
N/A
N/A
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
No
Plugin
Other
N/A
N/A
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
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Optional
No
No
Yes
Development/Support Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
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
Common Features Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
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
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Optional
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
Yes
Javascript
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
No
Statistics Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Output Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wikia PBwiki MediaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[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)
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[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
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
Indented block
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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