XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wikidot vs. MediaWiki

General Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
Version
16.3.0
N/A
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (2 days ago)
N/A
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2024-04-30 (1 day ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
Andreas Gohr
Michal Frackowiak
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL 2
AGPLv3
GPL
Programming Language
Java
N/A
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
personal, small to medium companies
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
Storage Quota
No limit
N/A
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
N/A
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
None
N/A
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
None
N/A
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
System Requirements XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
none
Datastorage XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
Unknown
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
Unknown
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
N/A
No
Unknown
Yes
SQLite
No
N/A
No
Unknown
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
Unknown
No
RCS
Plugin
N/A
No
Unknown
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
None
No
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Yes
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
No
Development/Support XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
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
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
2
English, Polish
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
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Links XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
None
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
Optional, PHP
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Optional
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
No
Keywords
Extras XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PBwiki DokuWiki Wikidot MediaWiki
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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
+++ headline level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
**bold text**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
//italics//
//italic text//
''italic''
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
__underlined__
__underlined text__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
''monospace''
{{monospaced text}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough text--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[image src="..."]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Plugin
= Centered line
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
N/A
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* element 1
* element 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# element 1
# element 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Plugin
: item : description
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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