Wikidot vs. XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Version
16.3.1
N/A
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
N/A
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
AGPLv3
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL
Programming Language
Java
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
No
Yes
N/A
System Requirements Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
none
Datastorage Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
N/A
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
N/A
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
N/A
No
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
N/A
No
Other
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
No
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Yes
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
No
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Development/Support Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
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
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Statistics Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Output Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Extras Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikidot XWiki PBwiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold text**
**bold**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//italic text//
//Italics//
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
__underlined text__
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[[image src="..."]]
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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
= Centered line
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
: item : description
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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