| General Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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v21.12.1
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8.37
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| Last Release Date |
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
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2020-07-20 (5 years ago)
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2022-01-06 (3 years ago)
|
2025-06-05 (6 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (4 years ago)
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2022-01-08 (3 years ago)
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2025-06-12 (5 months ago)
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| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Andreas Gohr
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Dan Brown
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https://kontextwork.de
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| License |
GPL
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GPL 2
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MIT
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Commercial
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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PHP
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Java
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Files
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Database
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Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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0
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Different licences
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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 |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
personal, small to medium companies
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Small to mid-size groups and businesses
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Enterprise
|
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Storage Quota |
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 |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
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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No
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
|
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
|
Apache, nginx
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| Other Requirements |
none
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Command-line access, PHP7.3+
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Text Files |
No
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Yes
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No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
No
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None
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MariaDB
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
|
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| # 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 | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
4475 ⭐
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17790 ⭐
|
N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
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, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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German, English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Optional, PHP
|
None
|
Widgets
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | BookStack | Drupal Wiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
|
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog) alternatively: [[#123]] [[#123][label]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
|
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor) alternatively: [[http://drupal-wiki.com]] [[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined__ |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
''monospace'' |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
Plugin |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
N/A |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
Plugin |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
|
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor) |
| remove MediaWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove BookStack | remove Drupal Wiki |