| General Features | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2.67
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1.6
|
8.08.13
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0.1-dev
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18.2.0
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| Last Release Date |
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
27/04/2013
|
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
no official
|
2026-03-30 (6 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2013-04-25 (12 years ago)
|
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
|
2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
|
2026-03-31 (5 days ago)
|
| Author |
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
C.Small
|
Yuri Takhteyev
|
Greg Stein
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| 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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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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MS-PL
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MIT/X
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Academic Free License
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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| Programming Language |
Perl
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C#
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Lua
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Python
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Java
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| Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database, Files, RCS
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RCS
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Database, RCS
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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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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Alpha
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Anyone
|
Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
|
Small teams or private users
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
|
| Hosting Features | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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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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N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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No
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| System Requirements | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Any
|
Windows Server, Ubuntu
|
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
|
| Root Access |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Any, or none
|
IIS, Apache
|
Apache, CGI, Xavante
|
Apache, IIS, anything with CGI support
|
Servlet 5.0+
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| Other Requirements |
mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
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gcc or Lua
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Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
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| Datastorage | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
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No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Oracle |
No
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Yes
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No
|
No
|
Yes
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| SQLite |
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
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No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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No
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Other |
SQL Server, MongoDB
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Git
|
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
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
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Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
|
Yes
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XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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No
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| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Unknown
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| Development/Support | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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No
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No
|
No
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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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N/A
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| Common Features | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
No
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
3
Czech, English, Polish |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
1
English |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
No
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No
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Threaded
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| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
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No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Not available
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
Some
|
None
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
complex
|
none
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Footnotes |
No
|
No
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No
|
No
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Yes
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| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
none
|
Lua, JavaScript
|
None
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
No
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | ikiwiki | Roadkill | Sputnik | SubWiki | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[internal]] |
[[Pagename|linkname]] |
[[Sputnik]] |
|
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) |
| External Link |
[link text](http://example.org) |
[[URL|linkname]] |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
|
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
== Large heading |
# Sputnik |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
**bold** __bold__ |
** bold ** |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
//italics// |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
''italic'' |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
_underline_ |
|
N/A |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
{{
monospace
}} |
|
{{monospaced}} |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
|
|
N/A |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
|
|
N/A |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
|
|
N/A |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
  |
{{Image.jpg.|title}} |
|
http://foo.bar/foo.gif |
image:img.png image:Space.Page@img.png [[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]] image:http://some/url/img.png Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also: image:icon:cancel |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
|
N/A |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
> Sputnik |
N/A |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
* Bullet List ** Sub item |
* Sputnik |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
# Numbered list ## Sub item |
1. Sputnik |
# Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
|
|
N/A |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
---- |
- - - |
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| remove ikiwiki | remove Roadkill | remove Sputnik | remove SubWiki | remove XWiki |