General Features | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
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Version |
3.4.9
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6.0
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5.0.0.1
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1.0.1
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5.2
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Last Release Date |
2008-11-09 (15 years ago)
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2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
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2024-05-03 (1 day ago)
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2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2008-11-21 (15 years ago)
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2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
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2019-02-19 (5 years ago)
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2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
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2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
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Author |
Dale Lane
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OpenRoad Communications Ltd
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Eduardo Mauro
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Clay Alberty
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Atlassian
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URL | |||||
Free and Open Source |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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License |
N/A
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Commercial
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Commercial
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BSD
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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Programming Language |
C#
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ASP.NET C#
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Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
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C#
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Java
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Data Storage |
Files
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Database
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Database
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Database
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Database
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License Cost/ Fee |
Free
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$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
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39,95
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Free
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starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
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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 |
Users wanting to be able to view/edit their wiki from a mobile phone or PDA, with a simple wiki that needs almost no setup
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Intranet, Corporate, Private
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Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
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Enterprise + Technical Teams
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Hosting Features | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Unlimited
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Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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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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N/A
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No
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Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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No
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Corporate Branding |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Optional
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Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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No
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System Requirements | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Operating System |
Windows, Windows Mobile
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Windows Server 2008, 2012
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Windows
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Windows
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Windows, Linux and Unix variants
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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 |
N/A
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IIS
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No need
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IIS 5+
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Apache Tomcat
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Other Requirements |
.NET 2 Framework
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none
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.NET framework v2.0 or higher
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Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
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Datastorage | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Text Files |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Unknown
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No
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MySQL |
No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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Oracle |
No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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SQLite |
No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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RCS |
No
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No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Other |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
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Firebird
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SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
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Security/Anti-Spam | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Page Permissions |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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ACL |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Authentication Backends |
No
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Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
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No need
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.NET Membership platform
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LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
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Host Blocking |
No
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Patch
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No
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No
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No
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Mail Encryption |
No
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Unknown
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No
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No
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Optional
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nofollow |
No
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Unknown
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No
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No
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Optional
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Blacklist |
No
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Unknown
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No
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No
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No
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CAPTCHA |
No
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Unknown
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No
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No
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Yes
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Delayed Indexing |
No
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Unknown
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No
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No
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No
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Development/Support | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
# of Consultants | |||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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No
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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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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Common Features | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Preview |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Minor Changes |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Change Summary |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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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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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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Unlimited
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Revision Diffs |
No
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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
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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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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No
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Yes
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Special Features | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
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No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Interface Languages |
0
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11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese |
1
English |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
Email notification |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Comments |
No
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Flat
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Flat
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No
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Threaded
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Categories |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Namespaces |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Conflict Handling |
None
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Page Locking
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None
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Conflict Resolution
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Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Search |
Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Wiki Farming |
Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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Structured Data |
Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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Plugin
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Links | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
CamelCase |
No
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No
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No
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Optional
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Yes
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Freelinks |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Backlinks |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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InterWiki |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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SisterWiki |
Unknown
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No
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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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Optional
|
Yes
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Windows Shares |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Page Redirects |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Yes
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Unknown
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Plugin
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Syntax Features | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
HTML Tags |
All
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All
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Some
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Some
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Optional
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Math formulas |
Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Tables |
simple
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complex
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simple + complex
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none
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simple + complex
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CREOLE support |
Unknown
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No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Markdown Support |
Unknown
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No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Textile Support |
Unknown
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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BBCode Support |
Unknown
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No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Emoticon Images |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Footnotes |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Optional
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Plugin
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Quoting |
Yes
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No
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No
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Optional
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Yes
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Internal Comments |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Custom styles |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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FAQ Tags |
Unknown
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Scripting |
javascript (optional)
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Yes
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Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
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Content Includes |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Usability | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Section Editing |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Page Templates |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Double-Click Edit |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Toolbar |
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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WYSIWYG Editing |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Access Keys |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Auto Signature |
Unknown
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Statistics | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Recent Changes |
Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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Yes
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Wanted Pages |
Unknown
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Orphaned Pages |
Yes
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Unknown
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Optional
|
Yes
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Recent Visitors |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Analysis |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Output | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
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Print CSS
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Print View
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Print CSS
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Mobile Friendly |
Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
|
Unknown
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Plugin
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Themes & Skins |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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RSS Feeds |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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ATOM Feeds |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Abbreviations |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Auto-TOC |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Raw Export |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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XML export |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
PDF Export |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Office Export |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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Media and Files | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
File Attachments |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Media Search |
Contents
|
No
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Contents
|
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Extras | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Calendar |
Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
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Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Forums |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Blogs |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Ticket System |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
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Syntax Examples | bLADE Wiki | ThoughtFarmer | ConnectedText | ProntoWiki | Confluence |
Internal Link |
[Link to a page] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[wiki page]] [[wiki page|Title]] |
[pagename] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
External Link |
[http://www.linkme.com] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]] [[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]] |
{title|url} |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
Headlines |
+Heading |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
= Head1 = == Head 2 == === Head 3 ==== |
!, !!, !!! |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
Bold Format |
*bold text* |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
**bold** |
**bold** |
*bold* |
Italics Format |
=italic text= |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
//italic// |
''italics'' |
_italics_ |
Underline Format |
_underlined text_ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
__Underline__ |
__under__ |
+underline+ |
Monospace Format |
[|code sample|] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
{{{Monospace}}} |
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{{monospace}} |
Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough text- |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
--Strikethrough-- |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
-strikethrough- |
Superscript Format |
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wysiwyg rich text editor |
^^Superscript^^ |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
^superscript^ |
Subscript Format |
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wysiwyg rich text editor |
vvSubscriptvv |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
~subscript~ |
Images |
[$image.jpg$] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]] |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
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Aligning Text |
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wysiwyg rich text editor |
~~Centered text~~ |
available through custom tags |
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Text Indentation |
> blockquote text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
: First level of indenting :: Second level |
multiple spaces -> |
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Bulleted Lists |
- bulleted |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* First item * Seconditem |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
Numbered Lists |
# numbered |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
1. First item 1. Second item |
# ## ### #### |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
Definition Lists |
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wysiwyg rich text editor |
;Term:Definition |
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Horizontal Rule |
___ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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