Wikia vs. XWiki vs. Wikidot vs. EditMe

General Features Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Version
N/A
16.2.0
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Last Release Date
N/A
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
Author
Wikia, Inc.
XWiki Development Team
Michal Frackowiak
EditMe, LLC
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
License
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
AGPLv3
N/A
Programming Language
N/A
Java
N/A
Data Storage
N/A
Database, RCS
Database
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
From $4.95/mo
Development status
N/A
Mature
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
All users
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Hosting Features Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Storage Quota
unlimited
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
25MB to 4GB
Bandwidth Quota
unlimited
no limit
1GB to 25GB
Other Limits
none
max uploaded file size limit
None
Topic Restrictions
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
by Terms Of Service
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
System Requirements Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Operating System
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Root Access
N/A
No
No
N/A
Webserver
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
Datastorage Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Text Files
N/A
No
Unknown
N/A
MySQL
N/A
Yes
Unknown
N/A
PostgreSQL
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Oracle
N/A
Yes
Unknown
N/A
SQLite
N/A
No
Unknown
N/A
BerkeleyDB
N/A
No
Unknown
N/A
RCS
N/A
Plugin
Unknown
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
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
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
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Yes
No
No
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 EditMe
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
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
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
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
No
Yes
Special Features Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
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
2
English, Polish
1
English
Email notification
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Optional
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
HTML Tags
Some
All
None
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
Optional
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Optional
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
Yes
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Usability Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Yes
No
No
Yes
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 EditMe
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Optional
Yes
No
No
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
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
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Keywords
Contents
No
Contents
Extras Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikia XWiki Wikidot EditMe
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]]]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
+++ headline level 3
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold text**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
Italics Format
//Italics//
//italic text//
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
Underline Format
__underline__
__underlined text__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
Monospace Format
##monospace##
{{monospaced text}}
Use WYSIWYG editor
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
--strikethrough text--
Use WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
Use WYSIWYG editor
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="..."]]
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
= Centered line
Use WYSIWYG editor
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.
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* element 1
* element 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# element 1
# element 1
Use WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
: item : description
Use WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Use WYSIWYG editor
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