Wikia vs. XWiki vs. EditMe vs. DokuWiki

General Features Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
Version
N/A
16.2.0
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
EditMe, LLC
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL 2
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
From $4.95/mo
0
Development status
N/A
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
personal, small to medium companies
Hosting Features Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
25MB to 4GB
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
1GB to 25GB
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
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
N/A
No
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
N/A
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
No
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
N/A
No
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
N/A
None
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Development/Support Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
Yes
N/A
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
3582 ⭐
Common Features Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
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 XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
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
1
English
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
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
No
Yes
Usability Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Output Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Wikia XWiki EditMe DokuWiki
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)
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Use WYSIWYG editor
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
**bold**
Italics Format
//Italics//
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
__underlined__
Monospace Format
##monospace##
Use WYSIWYG editor
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
Use WYSIWYG editor
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
Use WYSIWYG editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
Use WYSIWYG editor
<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
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Use WYSIWYG editor
Plugin
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Use WYSIWYG editor
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
Use WYSIWYG editor
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Use WYSIWYG editor
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
Use WYSIWYG editor
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
----
Use WYSIWYG editor
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