XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. Papyrs vs. EditMe

General Features XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Version
16.3.1
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Last Release Date
2024-05-09 (8 days ago)
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Last Update here
2024-05-13 (4 days ago)
2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
2020-08-06 (3 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
PBworks
Stunf BV
EditMe, LLC
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
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License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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Programming Language
Java
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Data Storage
Database, RCS
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License Cost/ Fee
0
Determined by Solution Needs
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
From $4.95/mo
Development status
Mature
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Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Business Enterprises
Companies, teams and professionals.
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Hosting Features XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Storage Quota
No limit
161061273600
25MB to 4GB
Bandwidth Quota
No limit
1GB to 25GB
Other Limits
None
None
Topic Restrictions
None
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Ads allowed
No
Yes
No
Yes
System Requirements XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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Root Access
No
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Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
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Datastorage XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Text Files
No
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N/A
MySQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Oracle
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
RCS
Plugin
N/A
N/A
N/A
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
N/A
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
N/A
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Optional
No
nofollow
No
No
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Optional
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
No
Development/Support XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
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
1
English
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
HTML Tags
All
All
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
No
Markdown Support
Yes
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Javascript
JavaScript
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Usability XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
No
Statistics XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
No
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Output XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras XWiki PBwiki Papyrs EditMe
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PBwiki Papyrs 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)
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[Link](/page)
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.externallink.com]
[Link](https://papyrs.com)
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
## Heading
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
Italics Format
//Italics//
''italics''
*italic*
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
Monospace Format
##monospace##
<code>monospace</code>
`mono`
Use WYSIWYG editor
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
~~strikethrough~~
Use WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
Use WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Indented block
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
- list
- list
Use WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. list
2. list
Use WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition
Use WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
---
***
Use WYSIWYG editor
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