XWiki vs. Zoho Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wikia vs. EditMe

General Features XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Version
16.3.0
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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N/A
Last Release Date
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
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2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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Last Update here
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2010-10-07 (13 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
2010-07-12 (13 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Zoho - Free Online Hosted Services
Andreas Gohr
Wikia, Inc.
EditMe, LLC
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
N/A
GPL 2
N/A
N/A
Programming Language
Java
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PHP
N/A
N/A
Data Storage
Database, RCS
N/A
Files
N/A
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free - 1 wiki, 3 users, 3 workspaces
0
$0
From $4.95/mo
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
N/A
N/A
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any users. No Download, No Installation
personal, small to medium companies
All users
Teams, Groups, Companies, Individuals
Hosting Features XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Storage Quota
Unlimited
N/A
unlimited
25MB to 4GB
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
N/A
unlimited
1GB to 25GB
Other Limits
Unlimited users & pages (Attachment Storage Space 50MB free)
N/A
none
None
Topic Restrictions
No restrictions
N/A
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
None
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Optional
Yes
Ads allowed
No
No
N/A
Yes
Yes
System Requirements XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
N/A
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Webserver
Servlet 3.1+
N/A
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
N/A
N/A
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Datastorage XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Text Files
No
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Oracle
Yes
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
SQLite
No
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
RCS
Plugin
N/A
No
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
None
N/A
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
N/A
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
N/A
N/A
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Development/Support XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
##wikia on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
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 Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
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
13
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
0
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
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
N/A
N/A
Structured Data
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Textile Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
not allowed
Optional, PHP
Yes
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Usability XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Section Editing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Statistics XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Output XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia EditMe
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki Zoho Wiki DokuWiki Wikia 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)
Automatic Linking, CamelCase, WYSIWYG linking
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[PageName]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
External Link
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Automatic or WYSIWYG linking
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[[http://... Link Text]], or Use WYSIWYG editor
Headlines
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys (CTRL + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bold Format
**bold**
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
**bold**
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-B
Italics Format
//Italics//
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
//italics//
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-I
Underline Format
__underline__
WYSIWYG with shortcut key
__underlined__
Use WYSIWYG editor, Ctl-U
Monospace Format
##monospace##
WYSIWYG
''monospace''
Use WYSIWYG editor
Strikethrough Format
--Strike--
WYSIWYG
<del>strikethrough</del>
Use WYSIWYG editor
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
WYSIWYG
<sup>superscript</sup>
Use WYSIWYG editor
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
WYSIWYG
<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
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
[[ImageName]] or Use WYSIWYG editor
Aligning Text
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
WYSIWYG with shortcut keys
Plugin
Use WYSIWYG editor
Text Indentation
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
WYSIWYG
N/A
Use WYSIWYG editor
Bulleted Lists
* List
** list
*** list
WYSIWYG
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
WYSIWYG
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Use WYSIWYG editor
Definition Lists
; term
: definition
<dl>
</dl>
Plugin
Use WYSIWYG editor
Horizontal Rule
----
WYSIWYG
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Use WYSIWYG editor
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