Wikidot vs. DokuWiki vs. PBwiki vs. XWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Version
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
N/A
16.3.0
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
N/A
2024-04-29 (2 days ago)
2024-04-20 (11 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2024-04-30 (1 day ago)
2024-04-21 (10 days ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Andreas Gohr
PBworks
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
AGPLv3
GPL 2
N/A
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
N/A
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
personal, small to medium companies
Business Enterprises
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Hosting Features Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
Yes
No
N/A
System Requirements Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
N/A
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
N/A
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
Datastorage Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
No
N/A
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
N/A
Yes
No
Oracle
Unknown
No
N/A
Yes
No
SQLite
Unknown
No
N/A
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
N/A
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
N/A
Plugin
Plugin
Other
None
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
N/A
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Development/Support Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
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 Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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
1
English
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
N/A
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
None
Optional
All
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Optional, PHP
Javascript
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Media and Files Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Extras Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Syntax Examples Wikidot DokuWiki PBwiki XWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [Free 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]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic text//
//italics//
''italics''
//Italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underlined__
__underline__
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
''monospace''
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<del>strikethrough</del>
-strikethrough-
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
Images
[[image src="..."]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
= Centered line
Plugin
<left>, <center>, <right>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
N/A
Indented block
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: item : description
Plugin
<dl>
</dl>
; term
: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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