Wikia vs. Wikidot vs. DokuWiki vs. PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Version
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
N/A
16.2.0
2.3.32
Last Release Date
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
N/A
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
2024-03-23 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-03-25 (25 days ago)
2024-03-24 (26 days ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
Michal Frackowiak
Andreas Gohr
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
AGPLv3
GPL 2
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
Programming Language
N/A
PHP
N/A
Java
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Database
Files
N/A
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
personal, small to medium companies
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Hosting Features Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
no limit
N/A
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
none
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
by Terms Of Service
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
System Requirements Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Operating System
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Text Files
N/A
Unknown
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Unknown
No
N/A
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
No
Oracle
N/A
Unknown
No
N/A
Yes
No
SQLite
N/A
Unknown
No
N/A
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
N/A
Unknown
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
Unknown
No
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Other
N/A
None
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
N/A
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
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
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
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki 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
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
0
2
English, Polish
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
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Plugin
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
None
Optional
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Yes
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Optional, PHP
Javascript
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
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Media and Files Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples Wikia Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic text//
//italics//
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
''monospace''
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
Images
[[image src="..."]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
= Centered line
Plugin
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% 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
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
N/A
Indented block
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
* element 1
* element 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Number #1
# Number #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
: item : description
Plugin
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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