| General Features | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
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1.0.1
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1.5.1
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1.0
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0.12.0
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| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
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2026-06-04 (today)
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2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
|
2007-08-07 (18 years ago)
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2010-06-21 (15 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (1 day ago)
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2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
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2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
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2007-09-16 (18 years ago)
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2010-08-24 (15 years ago)
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| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Clay Alberty
|
PukiWiki Development Team
|
David Jobet
|
legolas558
|
| 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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BSD
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GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
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GPL2
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GPLv2
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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C#
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PHP
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PHP
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JavaScript
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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Free
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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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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
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One theme, one PukiWiki
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private users
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Advanced End Users
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| System Requirements | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows
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OS independent
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All
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OS Independent (Browser Application)
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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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No
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| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
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IIS 5+
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Apache
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|
| Other Requirements |
none
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.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
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MySql
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JavaScript-capable browser
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Text Files |
No
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Unknown
|
Yes
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No
|
No
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| MySQL |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
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Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
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Unknown
|
No
|
No
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No
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| SQLite |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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No
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| Other |
No
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SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
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zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
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Self-modifying XHTML file, can export into XHTML and WSIF
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| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Page Permissions |
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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| ACL |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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No
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| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
.NET Membership platform
|
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
Supports per-page AES encryption
|
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel |
#pukiwiki
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| 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 | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
None
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
To current
|
Between all
|
No
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| 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 |
1
English |
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi |
7
German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Slovenian |
2
English, Italian |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
No
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
none
|
complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
|
Not at the moment
|
JavaScript
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Output | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | ProntoWiki | PukiWiki | Wiclear | Wiki on a Stick |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[pagename] |
PageNameAsWikiName [[PageName]] [[link text>PageName]] |
[Title] |
[[WoaS test page]] |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
{title|url} |
http://.... [[link text>http://....]] [[interwiki:keyphrase]] [[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]] |
[Title|http://url.to/] |
[[http://stickwiki.sf.net/|WoaS Official Website]] |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
!, !!, !!! |
* Level 1 ** Level 2 *** Level 3 |
!title1 !!title2 !!!title3 |
= Header 1 == Header 2 === Header 3 |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
''bold'' |
__bold__ |
*bold text* |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
'''italic''' |
''italic'' |
/italics text/ |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__under__ |
%%%underlined%%% |
|
_underlined text_ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
N/A |
the text must be preceded by 2 spaces and it will be pre formatted |
{{{this text will not render wiki syntax}}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
%%strikethrough%% |
|
|
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
N/A |
|
|
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
N/A |
|
|
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
#ref(pagename/filename[,option]) &ref(pagename/filename[,option]); &ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]); http://foo.bar/foo.jpg |
((image|title|left|longer description|100|100)) |
[[Image::woas.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
available through custom tags |
CENTER:center RIGHT:right LEFT:left |
|
|
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
multiple spaces -> |
N/A |
|
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
- Item 1 -- Item 1.1 - Item 2 |
*item1 *item2 **item21 **item22 *item3 |
* element 1 * element 2 * element 3 |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# ## ### #### |
+ Item 1 ++ Item 1.1 + Item 2 |
#item1 ##item1.1 ##item1.2 #item2 #item3 |
* element 1 * element 2 * element 3 |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
:term|definition |
;def1 : the complete definition of def1 ;def2 : the complete definition of def2 |
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| Horizontal Rule |
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