| General Features | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
8.08.13
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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| Last Release Date |
2008-08-13 (17 years ago)
|
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
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| Last Update here |
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
|
2009-02-02 (17 years ago)
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2026-03-25 (27 days ago)
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| Author |
Michal Frackowiak
|
Yuri Takhteyev
|
Andreas Gohr
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
AGPLv3
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MIT/X
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GPL 2
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| Programming Language |
Lua
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Database, Files, RCS
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Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
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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| Intended Audience |
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
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Small teams or private users
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personal, small to medium companies
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| Hosting Features | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Storage Quota |
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 |
no limit
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N/A
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
max uploaded file size limit
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
by Terms Of Service
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N/A
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N/A
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| Corporate Branding |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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| System Requirements | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
Apache, CGI, Xavante
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Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
gcc or Lua
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| Datastorage | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Text Files |
Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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| MySQL |
Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
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No
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No
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| Oracle |
Unknown
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No
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No
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| SQLite |
Unknown
|
Plugin
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No
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| BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
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No
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No
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| RCS |
Unknown
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No
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No
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| Other |
Git
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None
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Page Permissions |
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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| Authentication Backends |
Yes
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Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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| Mail Encryption |
No
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No
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Optional
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| nofollow |
Yes
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No
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Optional
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| Blacklist |
Yes
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No
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Optional
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
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No
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Optional
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| Development/Support | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
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
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N/A
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4600 ⭐
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| Common Features | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Plugin System |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Special Features | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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Unknown
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
2
English, Polish |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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| Comments |
Threaded
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Categories |
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
None
|
Page Locking
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| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
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| Wiki Farming |
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Structured Data |
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Links | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
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| Freelinks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| InterWiki |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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| SisterWiki |
No
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No
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No
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| Image Links |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Windows Shares |
No
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No
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Yes
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| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Syntax Features | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| HTML Tags |
None
|
Some
|
Optional
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| Math formulas |
Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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| Tables |
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple
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| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
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| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Emoticon Images |
No
|
No
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Yes
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| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Quoting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| Custom styles |
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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| FAQ Tags |
No
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No
|
Plugin
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| Scripting |
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
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Lua, JavaScript
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Optional, PHP
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| Content Includes |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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| Usability | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
No
|
Print CSS
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| Mobile Friendly |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Calendar |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikidot | Sputnik | DokuWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
[[Sputnik]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
| External Link |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
| Headlines |
+++ headline level 3 |
# Sputnik |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
**bold text** |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italic text// |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined text__ |
|
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
{{monospaced text}} |
|
''monospace'' |
| Strikethrough Format |
--strikethrough text-- |
|
<del>strikethrough</del> |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
|
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
|
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
[[image src="..."]] |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
| Aligning Text |
= Centered line |
|
Plugin |
| Text Indentation |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
> Sputnik |
N/A |
| Bulleted Lists |
* element 1 * element 2 |
* Sputnik |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# element 1 # element 1 |
1. Sputnik |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
: item : description |
|
Plugin |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
- - - |
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| remove Wikidot | remove Sputnik | remove DokuWiki |