| General Features | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
|
1.32.2
|
N/A
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
|
| Last Release Date |
N/A
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
|
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
| Author |
Michal Frackowiak
|
PBworks
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Wikia, Inc.
|
Andreas Gohr
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| License |
AGPLv3
|
N/A
|
GPL
|
N/A
|
GPL 2
|
| Programming Language |
N/A
|
PHP
|
N/A
|
PHP
|
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
N/A
|
Database
|
N/A
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
Determined by Solution Needs
|
0
|
$0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
Business Enterprises
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
All users
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
| Hosting Features | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| Storage Quota |
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
No limit
|
N/A
|
unlimited
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
no limit
|
No limit
|
N/A
|
unlimited
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
max uploaded file size limit
|
None
|
N/A
|
none
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
by Terms Of Service
|
None
|
N/A
|
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
N/A
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Webserver |
N/A
|
Any with PHP support
|
N/A
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
none
|
N/A
|
||
| Datastorage | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| RCS |
Unknown
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Other |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
None
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
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
|
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
| Common Features | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| 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
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
2
English, Polish |
1
English |
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 |
0
|
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 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
All
|
Some
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
Javascript
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional, PHP
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikidot | PBwiki | MediaWiki | Wikia | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
|
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
[http://example.org The title] |
|
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
+++ headline level 3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
|
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
**bold text** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
|
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italic text// |
''italics'' |
''italic'' |
|
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined text__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospaced text}} |
<code>monospace</code> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough text-- |
-strikethrough- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[image src="..."]] |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
= Centered line |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
Indented block |
: indented line |
|
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* element 1 * element 2 |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# element 1 # element 1 |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
: item : description |
<dl> </dl> |
; term : definition |
|
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
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---- |
|
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| remove Wikidot | remove PBwiki | remove MediaWiki | remove Wikia | remove DokuWiki |