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

General Features Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
Version
N/A
16.2.0
1.32.2
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-03-25 (26 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
PBworks
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
N/A
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
N/A
Java
PHP
N/A
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
N/A
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Business Enterprises
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
unlimited
N/A
No limit
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
N/A
No limit
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
none
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
N/A
No
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
N/A
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
Text Files
N/A
No
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
No
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
No
Oracle
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
No
No
SQLite
N/A
No
Yes
N/A
No
No
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
N/A
Plugin
No
N/A
No
Yes
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
No
N/A
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
No
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Optional
Yes
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
# 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
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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
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
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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Plugin
N/A
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Some
All
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Javascript
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Output Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikia XWiki MediaWiki PBwiki DokuWiki TWiki
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]]
[[a link|with title]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
**bold**
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italic''
''italics''
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>monospace</code>
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
<left>, <center>, <right>
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
Indented block
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Number #1
# Number #2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
; term : definition
<dl>
</dl>
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
----
---
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