| General Features | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.0.1
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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2.1.1
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| Last Release Date |
2026-09-13 (today)
|
2025-09-09 (1 year ago)
|
2004-05-14 (22 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2006-08-23 (20 years ago)
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2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
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2026-03-25 (5 months ago)
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2006-02-14 (20 years ago)
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| Author |
Clay Alberty
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Frank Carver
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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 |
BSD
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AGPLv3
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GPL 2
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ASL or LGPL
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| Programming Language |
C#
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PHP
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Java
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Database
|
Files
|
Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
Free
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Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
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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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| Intended Audience |
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
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personal, small to medium companies
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private users and small teams
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| Hosting Features | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
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N/A
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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no limit
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N/A
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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max uploaded file size limit
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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by Terms Of Service
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N/A
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N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Operating System |
Windows
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
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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 |
IIS 5+
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Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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Any that can run or call Java
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| Other Requirements |
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
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Java 1.3 or later
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| Datastorage | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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| MySQL |
Unknown
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Unknown
|
No
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No
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| PostgreSQL |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
|
No
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| Oracle |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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| SQLite |
Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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No
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| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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No
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| RCS |
Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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No
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| Other |
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
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None
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| Security/Anti-Spam | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| ACL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Authentication Backends |
.NET Membership platform
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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| Host Blocking |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Patch
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| Mail Encryption |
No
|
No
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Optional
|
No
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| nofollow |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
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| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
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| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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Yes
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Optional
|
No
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| Development/Support | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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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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4708 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Minor Changes |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
No
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| Change Summary |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
No
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
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|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Special Features | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| Interface Languages |
1
English |
2
English, Polish |
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 |
0
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| Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Comments |
No
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Categories |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
None
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Image Links |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
None
|
Optional
|
None
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Tables |
none
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Markdown Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Textile Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| BBCode Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
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| Footnotes |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
Optional, PHP
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| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Usability | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Output | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
|
| Extras | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ProntoWiki | Wikidot | DokuWiki | Friki |
| Internal Link |
[pagename] |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
|
| External Link |
{title|url} |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
|
| Headlines |
!, !!, !!! |
+++ headline level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
|
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold text** |
**bold** |
'''bold'' |
| Italics Format |
''italics'' |
//italic text// |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
__under__ |
__underlined text__ |
__underlined__ |
|
| Monospace Format |
|
{{monospaced text}} |
''monospace'' |
monospace |
| Strikethrough Format |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
--strikethrough text-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
| Superscript Format |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
[[image src="..."]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif |
| Aligning Text |
available through custom tags |
= Centered line |
Plugin |
|
| Text Indentation |
multiple spaces -> |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
N/A |
: indented |
| Bulleted Lists |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* element 1 * element 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* first * second |
| Numbered Lists |
# ## ### #### |
# element 1 # element 1 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. first 1. second |
| Definition Lists |
|
: item : description |
Plugin |
title: description |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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