| General Features | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
8.08.13
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18.6.0
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2.0.045
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2.67
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| Last Release Date |
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
2026-07-27 (3 days ago)
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2006-10-14 (19 years ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
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2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
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2009-11-28 (16 years ago)
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2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
| Author |
Yuri Takhteyev
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Helmut Leitner
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
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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 |
MIT/X
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
Lua
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Java
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Perl
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Perl
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| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
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Database, RCS
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Files
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Files, 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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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Small teams or private users
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
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Anyone
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| Hosting Features | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| 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
|
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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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No
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
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Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
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Unix / Linux
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Any
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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, CGI, Xavante
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
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Any, or none
|
| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
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Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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none
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| Datastorage | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| MySQL |
Plugin
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Yes
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No
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No
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
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No
|
No
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| Oracle |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| SQLite |
Plugin
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No
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No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| RCS |
No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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| Other |
Git
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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
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
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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Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
|
| Host Blocking |
No
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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| nofollow |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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| Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
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Yes
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No
|
No
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| Delayed Indexing |
No
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Yes
|
No
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No
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| Development/Support | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| # 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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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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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
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Special Features | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
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No
|
No
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
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 |
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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| Comments |
No
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Threaded
|
No
|
Discussion Pages
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| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
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| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
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| Links | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| CamelCase |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Freelinks |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Backlinks |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| SisterWiki |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Windows Shares |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Page Redirects |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
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| CREOLE support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Lua, JavaScript
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Toolbar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Statistics | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Output | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
No
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Sputnik | XWiki | ProWiki | ikiwiki |
| Internal Link |
[[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) |
CamelCase
Wordlinking
{{free link}}
[page labelforlink] |
[[internal]] |
| External Link |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
| Headlines |
# Sputnik |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
| Bold Format |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
**bold** __bold__ |
| Italics Format |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
|
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--Strike-- |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>text</sup> |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
<sub>text</sub> |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
| Images |
|
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 |
http://example.org/file.jpg Upload:file.gif [[Image]...options...] |
  |
| Aligning Text |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
|
| Text Indentation |
> Sputnik |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
: indented line :: indented line |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* Sputnik |
* List ** list *** list |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. Sputnik |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
; term: definition |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
- - - |
---- |
---- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
| remove Sputnik | remove XWiki | remove ProWiki | remove ikiwiki |