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

General Features Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Version
N/A
16.2.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
N/A
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Andreas Gohr
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
PBworks
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL 2
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
N/A
Java
PHP
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
Files
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
Business Enterprises
Hosting Features Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
No limit
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
N/A
No limit
Other Limits
none
N/A
N/A
None
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
No
N/A
N/A
Yes
System Requirements Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
No
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
N/A
Datastorage Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Text Files
N/A
No
Yes
No
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
No
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
No
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
No
N/A
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
None
No
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
N/A
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
No
Development/Support Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
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
Common Features Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
0
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
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
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional, PHP
Optional
Javascript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Output Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikia XWiki DokuWiki MediaWiki PBwiki
Internal 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]
External Link
[[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://www.externallink.com]
Headlines
= 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
!!!!!! Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italics//
''italic''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>monospace</code>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
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://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
<center>Centered</center>
<left>, <center>, <right>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

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