General Features | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
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Version |
v.20160608
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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2.3.33
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TWiki-6.1.0
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Last Release Date |
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
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2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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2024-04-20 (6 days ago)
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2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
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2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
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2024-04-21 (5 days ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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Author |
marty alain
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Andreas Gohr
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Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
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URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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License |
GNU-GPL
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GPL 2
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GPL2+
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GPL
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Programming Language |
PHP+Javascript
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PHP
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PHP
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Perl, JavaScript
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Data Storage |
Files
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Files
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Files
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Files, RCS
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License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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N/A
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Intended Audience |
private users, small teams
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personal, small to medium companies
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All
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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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System Requirements | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
Operating System |
probably every OS
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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Root Access |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Webserver |
Apache with PHP support
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Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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Other Requirements |
none
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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Datastorage | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
Text Files |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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MySQL |
No
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No
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Plugin
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No
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PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Oracle |
No
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No
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No
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No
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SQLite |
No
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No
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Plugin
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No
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BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
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RCS |
No
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Other |
None
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None
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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Security/Anti-Spam | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Authentication Backends |
No
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Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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Host Blocking |
No
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Plugin
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Optional
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Plugin
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Mail Encryption |
No
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Optional
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Optional
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Yes
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nofollow |
No
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Optional
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Yes
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Plugin
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Blacklist |
No
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Optional
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Optional
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Plugin
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CAPTCHA |
No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Delayed Indexing |
No
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Optional
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Optional
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Plugin
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Development/Support | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
# of Consultants | ||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Code Repository | ||||
Issue Tracker | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
Support Forum | ||||
Chat Channel | ||||
Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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3582 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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Common Features | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Change Summary |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Revision Diffs |
No
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Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Sitemap |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin System |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Special Features | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
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Yes
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Optional
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No
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Interface Languages |
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 |
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Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
Email notification |
No
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Optional
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Optional
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Yes
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Comments |
Discussion Pages
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Plugin
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Discussion Pages
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Threaded
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Categories |
Unknown
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Namespaces |
Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
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Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Resolution
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Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
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No
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Yes
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Unknown
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Search |
Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Wiki Farming |
No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Optional
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Structured Data |
Unknown
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Links | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
CamelCase |
No
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Optional
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Optional
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Yes
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Freelinks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Backlinks |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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InterWiki |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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SisterWiki |
No
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No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Image Links |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Windows Shares |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Page Redirects |
No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Plugin
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Syntax Features | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
HTML Tags |
Optional
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Optional
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Plugin
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All
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Math formulas |
Yes
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Tables |
simple + complex
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simple
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simple + complex
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simple + complex
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CREOLE support |
No
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Plugin
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Optional
|
No
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Markdown Support |
No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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No
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Textile Support |
No
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Plugin
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No
|
Plugin
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BBCode Support |
No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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No
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Emoticon Images |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Syntax Highlighting |
No
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Yes
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Optional
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Plugin
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Footnotes |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Quoting |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Internal Comments |
Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom styles |
Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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FAQ Tags |
Unknown
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Scripting |
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
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Optional, PHP
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MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
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TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
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Content Includes |
Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Feed Aggregation |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Usability | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
Section Editing |
Optional
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Yes
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Page Templates |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Double-Click Edit |
No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Toolbar |
No
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Yes
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Optional
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Plugin
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WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Access Keys |
Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Auto Signature |
Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Statistics | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Wanted Pages |
No
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Plugin
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Optional
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No
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Orphaned Pages |
No
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Plugin
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Optional
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Plugin
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Most/Least Popular |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Recent Visitors |
Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Analysis |
No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Yes
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Output | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
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Print CSS
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Print View
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Print View
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Mobile Friendly |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Themes & Skins |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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RSS Feeds |
No
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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ATOM Feeds |
No
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Abbreviations |
Optional
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Yes
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Auto-TOC |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Raw Export |
Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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HTML Export |
Optional
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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XML export |
No
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No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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PDF Export |
No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Plugin
|
Office Export |
Unknown
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Unknown
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Media and Files | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Media Revisions |
No
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Embedded Flash |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Embedded Video |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Image Editing |
No
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No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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SVG Editing |
Yes
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Plugin
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No
|
Plugin
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MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Media Search |
No
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Filenames only
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Filenames only
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Contents
|
Extras | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
Calendar |
Optional
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Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Image Galleries |
Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Unknown
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Forums |
Yes
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No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Blogs |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Plugin
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Ticket System |
No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Plugin
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Chat |
Unknown
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Syntax Examples | alphawiki | DokuWiki | PmWiki | TWiki |
Internal Link |
1) standard syntax : {a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar} 2) alternate wiki form : [[pixar]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
External Link |
1) standard syntax : {a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar} 2) alternate wiki form : [[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
Headlines |
1) standard syntax : {h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6 2) alternate form : _h1 TITLE (until end of line) |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
Bold Format |
{b I am bold} |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
Italics Format |
{i I am italic} |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
Underline Format |
{u I am underline} |
__underlined__ |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underline</u> |
Monospace Format |
{pre I am monospace and preformated} |
''monospace'' |
@@monospace@@ |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
Strikethrough Format |
{del I am line-through} |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
{-strikethrough-} |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
Superscript Format |
E = mc{sup 2} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Subscript Format |
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} Vector high indiced: V{sup i} Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Images |
1) static image, simple : {img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}} 2) static image, complete : {img {@ src="data/image.jpg" height="200" title="infotext" }} 3) click_enlarging image : {show {@ src="data/image.jpg" height="200" width="400" title="infotext" }} |
{{local.jpg}} {{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
Aligning Text |
{center I am centered} |
Plugin |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Text Indentation |
{p I am an indented paragraph.} |
N/A |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
Bulleted Lists |
1) standard : {ul {li item 1} {li item 2} } 2) alternative : _ul item 1 _ul item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
1) standard : {ol {li item 1} {li item 2} } 2) alternative : _ol item 1 _ol item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
{dl {dt one} {dd definition 1} {dt two} {dd definition 2} } |
Plugin |
: term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
Horizontal Rule |
{hr} |
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