| General Features | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2
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2.7.4
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2.11.0
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0.11.5
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| Last Release Date |
2013-08-13 (13 years ago)
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2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
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2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
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2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2013-08-22 (13 years ago)
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2026-07-31 (1 month ago)
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2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
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2009-09-04 (17 years ago)
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| Author |
Atlassian
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
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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GPL2+
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Apache License 2.0
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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
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Files
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Database, Files
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Beta
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
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All
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all
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Software development teams
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| Hosting Features | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| Storage Quota |
Unlimited
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N/A
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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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N/A
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| Other Limits |
No
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
No
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
Optional
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
No
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
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Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
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| 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
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
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Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
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Apache, Standalone (builtin)
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| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
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none
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optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
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Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
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| Datastorage | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| Text Files |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| MySQL |
Yes
|
Plugin
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Optional
|
Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
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No
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Optional
|
Yes
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| Oracle |
Yes
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No
|
Optional
|
No
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| SQLite |
No
|
Plugin
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Optional
|
Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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Optional
|
No
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| RCS |
No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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No
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| Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
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0
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| 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 |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
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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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JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
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File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
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| Host Blocking |
No
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Optional
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Optional
|
Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Optional
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Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
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| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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| Blacklist |
No
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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Optional
|
Yes
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No
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| Development/Support | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
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| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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118 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Interface Languages |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
38
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 |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
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
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
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| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| Links | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
yes, using Python
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Usability | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Statistics | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Output | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | PmWiki | JSPWiki | TracWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
= 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+ |
{+underlined+} |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
@@monospace@@ |
{{monospace}} |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
{-strikethrough-} |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
~~strike-through~~ |
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
'^superscript^' |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
'_subscript_' |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
|
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
[[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 text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
| Definition Lists |
|
: term : definition |
;term:definition |
term:: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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