| General Features | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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16.3.1
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5.2
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| Last Release Date |
N/A
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2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
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2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
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2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
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2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
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2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
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| Author |
Wikia, Inc.
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
Atlassian
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| License |
N/A
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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AGPLv3
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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| Programming Language |
N/A
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Java
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Java
|
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| Data Storage |
N/A
|
Database, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
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0
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Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
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| Development status |
N/A
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
All users
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
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| Hosting Features | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| Storage Quota |
unlimited
|
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited
|
no limit
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| Other Limits |
none
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max uploaded file size limit
|
No
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
by Terms Of Service
|
No
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| System Requirements | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Servlet 3.1+
|
Apache Tomcat
|
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
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| Datastorage | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
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| RCS |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
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| Other |
N/A
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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
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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|||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
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|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| 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
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| 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 |
2
English, Polish |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| SisterWiki |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
None
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Yes
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikia | XWiki | Wikidot | Confluence |
| 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) |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
| External Link |
|
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
| Headlines |
|
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
+++ headline level 3 |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
**bold text** |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
|
//Italics// |
//italic text// |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
__underlined text__ |
+underline+ |
| Monospace Format |
|
##monospace## |
{{monospaced text}} |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--Strike-- |
--strikethrough text-- |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
^^superscript^^ |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
,,subscript,, |
~subscript~ |
| 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 src="..."]] |
|
| Aligning Text |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
= Centered line |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* List ** list *** list |
* element 1 * element 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
| Numbered Lists |
|
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# element 1 # element 1 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
: item : description |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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