| General Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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2.5.9
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26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
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0.11.5
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| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (6 months ago)
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2026-04-05 (1 day ago)
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2023-11-16 (2 years ago)
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2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (12 days ago)
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2026-04-05 (1 day ago)
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2024-04-01 (2 years ago)
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2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
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| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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Tiki Software Community Association
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Edgewall Software
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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 |
GPL 2
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GPL2+
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LGPL
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Modified BSD license
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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Python
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| Data Storage |
Files
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Files
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Database
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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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 |
personal, small to medium companies
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All
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Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
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Software development teams
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| System Requirements | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
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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, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
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Works on standard shared hosting
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Apache, Standalone (builtin)
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| Other Requirements |
none
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None
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Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
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| Datastorage | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| MySQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Plugin
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No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
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No
|
No
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| Other |
None
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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MariaDB
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0
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| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
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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SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
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File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
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| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
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| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | 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 |
4592 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| 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
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
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 |
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, 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 |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Detection
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
|
yes, using Python
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | 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 |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | PmWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | TracWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[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]] |
((Name of page)) or ((Name of page|link to a page)) or (semantic(link to a page)) or, if activated: CamelCase WikiWords |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
{+underlined+} |
===underline=== |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
@@monospace@@ |
-+monospace+- |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
{-strikethrough-} |
--strike-- |
~~strike-through~~ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
{img 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 |
Plugin |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
::centered text:: |
|
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
leading spaces, if activated. |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* 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 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
| Numbered Lists |
- 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 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
: term : definition |
;term:definition |
term:: definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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