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General FeaturesClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Version 1.3 4.0 2012-01-25 "Angua" 1.9.3 does not applyTWiki 5.1.1 does not applydoes not apply3.4
Last Release Date 07/13/07 19th September, 2011 2012-01-25 2010-06-27 does not apply2012-01-17 does not applydoes not apply2012-01-24
Author Jive Software Atlassian Andreas Gohr moinmo.in Socialtext Peter Thoeny, TWiki community Wetpaint.com Wikispaces.com XWiki Development Team
URL www.jivesoftware.com www.atlassian.com www.dokuwiki.org moinmo.in www.socialtext.com twiki.org and www.twiki.net www.wetpaintcentral.com www.wikispaces.com www.xwiki.org
Free and Open Source No No Yes Yes does not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply Yes
License Commercial Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use GPL 2 GPL does not applyGPL does not applydoes not applyLGPL
Programming Language Java Java PHP Python does not applyPerl, JavaScript does not applydoes not applyJava
Data Storage Database Database Files Files does not applyFiles, RCS does not applydoes not applyDatabase
License Cost/ Fee $29/user starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) 0 0 www.socialtext.com community release $0; fee for subscriptions for support or hosting Free; Premium; Ad-free for Education free for public and protected (members-only) spaces; $5/mo. for private and ad-free spaces 0
Development status Mature Mature Mature Mature does not applyMature does not applydoes not applyMature
Intended Audience Corporate, Public, Private, Intranet Enterprise + Technical Teams private, small to medium companies Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :) Businesses Large enterprise; small to medium businesses All users interest groups, education, small companies, social groups, individuals Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting FeaturesClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Storage Quota does not apply10 to 100GB+ does not applydoes not apply2 x 146GB does not applyUnlimited 2GB - Unlimited does not apply
Bandwidth Quota does not apply100GB/month does not applydoes not applyUnlimited does not applyUnlimited no limit set does not apply
Other Limits does not apply No does not applydoes not applyUnlimited wiki workspaces & pages does not apply  none does not apply
Topic Restrictions does not apply No does not applydoes not apply None does not applyNo restrictions per terms of service does not apply
Corporate Branding does not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply Yes does not apply Yes Yes does not apply
Own Domain does not apply Optional does not applydoes not apply Yes does not apply Yes Yes does not apply
Ads allowed does not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply No does not apply No Yes does not apply
System RequirementsClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Operating System Unix, Mac OSX, Windows, Linux Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+ does not applyLinux, Windows, OS-X and other does not applydoes not applyAny platform supporting JDK 1.6 or greater
Root Access Yes No No No does not apply No does not applydoes not apply No
Webserver J2EE Compliant Apache Tomcat Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares does not applyAlmost any webserver, typically Apache 1.3/2.0 does not applydoes not applyServlet 2.4+
Other Requirements Java 1.5 Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+   None does not applyRCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies does not applydoes not applyJava 1.6, MySQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
DatastorageClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Text Files No No Yes Yes does not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply No
MySQL Yes Yes No No does not apply No does not applydoes not apply Yes
PostgreSQL Yes Yes No No does not apply No does not applydoes not apply Yes
Oracle Yes Yes No No does not apply No does not applydoes not apply Yes
SQLite No No No No does not apply No does not applydoes not apply No
BerkeleyDB No No No No does not apply No does not applydoes not apply No
RCS No No No No does not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply No
Other SQL Server, DB2 PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server None No does not applyRcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage does not applydoes not applyJDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-SpamClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Page Permissions Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ACL Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Authentication Backends LDAP, Active Directory LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible does not applyInternal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos does not applydoes not applyXWiki, LDAP, eXo Platform, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking No No Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Yes No No
Mail Encryption No Optional Optional Optional Optional Yes   No No
nofollow No Optional Optional No Optional Plugin Yes Yes No
Blacklist Yes No Optional Yes Yes Plugin   No No
CAPTCHA Yes Yes Plugin Optional Optional Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Delayed Indexing Yes No Optional No Optional Plugin No No Yes
Development/SupportClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Commercial Support Yes, 5 listed Yes, 34 listed Yes, 32 listed Yes, 13 listed Yes, 5 listed Yes, 33 listed No Yes, 2 listed Yes, 9 listed
Preconfigured Hosting Yes Yes Yes Yes does not apply Yes does not applydoes not apply Yes
Code Repository   Source included with commercial license github.com see moinmo.in does not applytwiki.org does not applydoes not applygithub.com
Issue Tracker   jira.atlassian.com bugs.splitbrain.org see moinmo.in www.socialtext.net twiki.org www.wetpaintcentral.com www.wikispaces.com jira.xwiki.org
Mailing List   www.atlassian.com www.freelists.org see moinmo.in www.socialtext.net twiki.org   n/a dev.xwiki.org
Support Forum www.jivesoftware.com/support answers.atlassian.com forum.dokuwiki.org see moinmo.in www.socialtext.net twiki.org www.wetpaintcentral.com www.wikispaces.com Through the mailing list/JIRA/IRC/Nabble
IRC Channel   Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com www.dokuwiki.org see moinmo.in #socialtext twiki.org   n/a irc.freenode.net (channel: #xwiki)
Common FeaturesClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Preview Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Minor Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes Optional Yes Yes No Yes
Change Summary Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page History Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Revisions Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Revision Diffs Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all Between all
Page Index Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes   Yes Yes
Plugin System Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Special FeaturesClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Unicode Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Right-to-Left Support No No Yes Yes Optional No No Yes No
Interface Languages Not localized 15 languages
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
55 languages
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Marathi, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
    19 languages
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Not localized 8 languages
Welsh, German, English, Spanish, Basque, French, Italian, Polish
26 languages
Catalan, Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification Yes Yes Optional Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Comments Threaded Threaded Plugin Discussion Pages Flat Threaded Threaded Discussion Pages Threaded
Categories Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Namespaces Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Page Redirection Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Optional Yes Yes Yes Yes
Conflict Handling Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Page Locking Conflict Resolution Conflict Detection Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Conflict Resolution Page Locking
Search Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text Full Text
Wiki Farming   Yes Patch Yes does not apply Optional does not applydoes not apply Yes
Structured Data   Plugin Plugin No Yes Yes   No Yes
LinksClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
CamelCase No Yes Optional Yes Optional Yes No No Yes
Freelinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Backlinks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
InterWiki Yes Optional Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
SisterWiki No No No Yes Optional Plugin No Yes Yes
Image Links Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Shares Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin   Yes Yes
Page Redirects   Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Syntax FeaturesClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
HTML Tags Some Optional Optional Some All All None Optional All
Math formulas No Plugin Plugin Plugin Optional Plugin   Yes Yes
Tables simple simple + complex simple complex simple + complex simple + complex simple + complex complex simple + complex
CREOLE support No No Plugin Yes Optional No No No Yes
Markdown Support No No Plugin No Optional No No No Yes
Textile Support Yes Yes Plugin No Optional Plugin No No No
BBCode Support Yes No Plugin No Optional No No No No
Emoticon Images Yes Yes Yes Yes Optional Yes Yes No Yes
Syntax Highlighting No Yes Yes Yes Optional Plugin No Yes Yes
Footnotes No Plugin Yes Yes Optional Plugin   Yes Yes
Quoting Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes   Yes Yes
Internal Comments No Plugin Plugin Yes Optional Yes No No Yes
Custom styles Plugin Yes Plugin Yes Optional Yes No Yes Yes
FAQ Tags No Yes Plugin No Optional Yes   No Plugin
Scripting   Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more Optional, PHP plugins, see comment ----------------> Javascript TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API   yes: javascript velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes Plugin Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes   Yes Yes
Feed Aggregation Plugin Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
UsabilityClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Section Editing No No Yes No Optional Plugin No Yes Yes
Page Templates   Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Double-Click Edit No No Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Yes No No
Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
WYSIWYG Editing Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Access Keys Yes Yes Yes Optional Yes Yes Yes No Yes
Auto Signature No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No
StatisticsClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Recent Changes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wanted Pages No Yes Plugin Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
Orphaned Pages No Yes Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Most/Least Popular No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Recent Visitors No No No No Yes Plugin No No Yes
Analysis No Yes Plugin Yes Optional Yes Plugin Yes Yes
OutputClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
HTML XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional HTML 4 HTML 4 XHTML 1.0 Transitional   XHTML 1.0 Transitional XHTML 1.0 Strict
CSS Stylesheets Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Printer Friendly Print View Print CSS Print CSS Print CSS Print View Print View Print View Print View Print View
Mobile Friendly   Plugin Plugin Yes Yes Plugin   Yes No
Themes & Skins Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
RSS Feeds Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ATOM Feeds Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes   Yes Optional
Abbreviations No No Yes No Yes Plugin   No Plugin
Auto-TOC No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes   Yes Optional
Raw Export No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes   Yes Yes
HTML Export No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
XML export No Yes No Yes Yes Plugin   No Yes
PDF Export Yes Yes Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin No Yes Yes
Media and FilesClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
File Attachments Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Media Revisions Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Embedded Flash Optional Yes Yes Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Embedded Video Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Plugin Yes Yes Yes
Image Editing No Plugin No Yes Optional Plugin No No Plugin
SVG Editing No Plugin Plugin Yes Optional Plugin No No Plugin
MindMap Editing No Plugin Plugin No Optional Plugin No No Plugin
Media Search Keywords Contents Filenames only Contents Contents Contents Keywords Filenames only Contents
ExtrasClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Calendar   Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Image Galleries   Yes Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin Yes Plugin Yes
Forums   Plugin No No Yes Plugin Yes Yes Plugin
Blogs   Yes Plugin No Yes Plugin   No Yes
Ticket System   Plugin Plugin No Yes Plugin   No Plugin
Syntax ExamplesClearspace DetailsConfluence DetailsDokuWiki DetailsMoinMoin DetailsSocialtext DetailsTWiki DetailsWetpaint DetailsWikispaces DetailsXWiki Details
Internal Link
[link]
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]
"example" {link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WYSIWYG linking
Wetpaint auto suggests internal pages to link.
[[pagename]] or [[pagename|alias]] or [[spacename:pagename]]
[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
External Link
[http://example.com]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file
"Example"<http://www.example.com/>
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
WYSIWYG external linking
[[http://somewhere.else]] [[http://somewhere.else|alias]] or http://somewhere.else
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
h1. 
h2. 
h3.
h4.
h5.
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
^ Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
WYSIWYG
= Headline 1 =
== Headline 2 ==
=== Headline 3 ===
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold*
*bold*
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''
*bold*
*bold*
WYSIWYG
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
+italics+
_italics_
//italics//
''italic''
''emphasised''
_italics_
_italic_
WYSIWYG
//italics//
//Italics//
Underline Format
_underline_
+underline+
__underlined__
__underline__
.html
<u>word</u>
.html
<u>underline</u>
WYSIWYG
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format  
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
`monospaced`
.pre
monospace
.pre
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
 
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
--(strikethrough)--
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
via editor tool
--Strike--
Superscript Format
3^rd^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^superscript^
.html
<sup>number here</sup>
.html
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
via editor tool
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
2~n~
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
.html
<sub>number here</sub>
.html
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
via editor tool
,,subscript,,
Images
!imageURL!
!attached-image.jpg!
!Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail!
!http://example.com/external-image.jpg!
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}
http://www.example.com/path/to/image.jpg
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
WYSIWYG Upload, Alignment, and Resizing
[[image:image.jpg]]
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
Aligning Text  
{html}<div align="right">{html}
 Plugin
only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||
.html
<p style="text-align: center;">
text you wish to align here
</p>
.html
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
WYSIWYG Left, Right, Center
via editor tool
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation    
 N/A
  indented text
> indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
WYSIWYG indentation
> indent
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* bullet 1
** bullet 1a
* bullet 2
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
  * item 1
    * item 1.1
  * item 2
 * Item 1
  * Item 1.1
 * Item 2
* bullet item
** bulletted subitem
   * Item 1
      * Item 1.1
   * Item 2
WYSIWYG Bulleted Lists
* one
* two
** sub-two
* three
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# item 1
## item 1a
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
  - item 1
    - item 1.1
  - item 2
 1. Item 1
  a. Item 1.a
 1. Item 2
# numbered item
## numbered subitem
   1. Item 1
      a. Item 1.a
   1. Item 2
WYSIWYG Numbered Lists
# one
# two
## sub-two
# three
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists    
 Plugin
 term:: definition
Term
> definition
   $ Term: Definition
 
 n/a
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
-----
----
----
----
-----
------
----
---
 
----
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Last updated2007-07-242011-09-192012-02-012010-07-032010-11-152012-01-182011-02-092010-10-202012-01-24