XWiki vs. ikiwiki vs. Papyrs vs. Foswiki vs. MediaWiki

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)

[[internal]]

[Link](/page)

WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]

[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]

[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com

[link text](http://example.org)

[Link](https://papyrs.com)

External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]

[http://example.org The title]

= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..

Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------

## Heading

---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6

==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====

**bold**

**bold**
__bold__

**bold**

*bold*

'''bold'''

//Italics//

*emphasized*
_emphasized_

*italic*

_italic_

''italic''

__underline__

via HTML: <u>underlined</u>

<u>underline</u>

<u>underline</u>

<u>underlined</u>

##monospace##

`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block

`mono`

=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>

<tt>monospace</tt>

--Strike--

via HTML: <del>deleted</del>

~~strikethrough~~

<strike>strikethrough</strike>

<s>strikethrough</s>

^^superscript^^

via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>

<sup>superscript</sup>

<sup>superscript</sup>

,,subscript,,

via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>

<sub>subscript</sub>

<sub>subscript</sub>

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

![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)

%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%

[[Image:wiki.png]]

(% style="... css here..." %)Text

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS

<center>Centered</center>

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text

<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>

: indented line

* List
** list
*** list

* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2

- list
- list

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2

* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4

1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works

1. list
2. list

1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2

; term
: definition

via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>

Link to [^1]

[^1] some definition

$ Term: Definition

; term : definition

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Any number > 3
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spaces don't matter

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