| General Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2
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1.45.3
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18.8.0
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0.11.5
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| Last Release Date |
2013-08-13 (13 years ago)
|
2025-12-04 (10 months ago)
|
2026-09-29 (24 days ago)
|
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2013-08-22 (13 years ago)
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2026-06-03 (4 months ago)
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2026-09-30 (23 days ago)
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2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Atlassian
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Edgewall Software
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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GPL
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
Modified BSD license
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| Programming Language |
Java
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PHP
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Java
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Python
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, RCS
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Beta
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
Software development teams
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| Hosting Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Storage Quota |
Unlimited
|
N/A
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N/A
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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||
| Other Limits |
No
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N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
No
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N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Own Domain |
Optional
|
N/A
|
Yes
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
No
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N/A
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No
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N/A
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| System Requirements | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache Tomcat
|
Any with PHP support
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
none
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Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
| Datastorage | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Other |
No
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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
|
0
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Yes
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
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| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
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| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Development/Support | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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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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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| 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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
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 |
141
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, Javanese, 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
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
Optional
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
yes, using Python
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | MediaWiki | XWiki | TracWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
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) |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--Strike-- |
~~strike-through~~ |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
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 |
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link |
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
term:: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove Confluence | remove MediaWiki | remove XWiki | remove TracWiki |