General Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
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Version |
v21.12.1
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1.32.2
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16.3.1
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3.2
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Last Release Date |
2022-01-05 (2 years ago)
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2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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2024-05-09 (10 days ago)
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2021-03-15 (3 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2022-01-08 (2 years ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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2024-05-13 (6 days ago)
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2021-03-17 (3 years ago)
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Author |
Dan Brown
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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XWiki Development Team
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Hallo Welt! GmbH
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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
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GPL
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPLv3
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Programming Language |
PHP
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PHP
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Java
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PHP
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Data Storage |
Database
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Database
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Database, RCS
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Database
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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 to mid-size groups and businesses
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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Enterprise + Technical Teams
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Hosting Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
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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N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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No
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N/A
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System Requirements | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows and Unix variants
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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Linux, Windows
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Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Webserver |
Apache, Nginx or others with PHP support
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Any with PHP support
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Servlet 3.1+
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Apache 2+ / IIS 8+
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Other Requirements |
Command-line access, PHP7.3+
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none
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Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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Apache Tomcat 8, ElasticSearch 6+, Java 8+, NodeJS 6+
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Datastorage | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
Text Files |
No
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No
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No
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No
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MySQL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Oracle |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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SQLite |
No
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Yes
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No
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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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No
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RCS |
No
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No
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Plugin
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No
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Other |
MariaDB
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No
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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 | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
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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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Authentication Backends |
SAML2, LDAP, OIDC, ActiveDirectory, Google, GitHub, GitLab, AzureAD, Slack and more
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Yes
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XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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Yes
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Host Blocking |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Mail Encryption |
Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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nofollow |
No
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Optional
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No
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Optional
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Blacklist |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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CAPTCHA |
No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Plugin
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Delayed Indexing |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Development/Support | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
# of Consultants | ||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Code Repository | ||||
Issue Tracker | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
Support Forum | ||||
Chat Channel | ||||
Stars on GitHub |
10374 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Common Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
Preview |
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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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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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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Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
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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 |
No
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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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Yes
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Special Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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Interface Languages |
29
Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, German, English, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
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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 |
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Arabic, Bashkir, Breton, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Interlingua, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Dutch, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
Email notification |
No
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Comments |
Flat
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Discussion Pages
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Threaded
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Discussion Pages
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Categories |
Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Namespaces |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
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Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Resolution
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Concurrent Editing |
No
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Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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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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Wiki Farming |
No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Plugin
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Structured Data |
No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Plugin
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Links | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
CamelCase |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Freelinks |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Backlinks |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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InterWiki |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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SisterWiki |
No
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No
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Yes
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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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Yes
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Windows Shares |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Page Redirects |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Syntax Features | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
HTML Tags |
Optional
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Some
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All
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Optional
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Math formulas |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Tables |
simple
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simple + complex
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simple + complex
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simple + complex
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CREOLE support |
No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Markdown Support |
Optional
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No
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Yes
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No
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Textile Support |
No
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No
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No
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No
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BBCode Support |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Emoticon Images |
No
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Footnotes |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Quoting |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Internal Comments |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom styles |
Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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FAQ Tags |
No
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No
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Plugin
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No
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Scripting |
None
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Optional
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velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
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Java Script
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Content Includes |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Feed Aggregation |
No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Usability | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
Section Editing |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Page Templates |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Double-Click Edit |
No
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Optional
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No
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Optional
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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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WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Access Keys |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Auto Signature |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Statistics | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Wanted Pages |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Orphaned Pages |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Most/Least Popular |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Recent Visitors |
No
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Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Analysis |
No
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Output | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
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Print CSS
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Print CSS
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Print CSS
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Mobile Friendly |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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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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RSS Feeds |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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ATOM Feeds |
No
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Abbreviations |
No
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No
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Plugin
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No
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Auto-TOC |
No
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Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Raw Export |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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HTML Export |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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XML export |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Office Export |
No
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Unknown
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Yes
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Optional
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Media and Files | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Media Revisions |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Embedded Flash |
No
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Plugin
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Yes
|
Plugin
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Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Image Editing |
No
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No
|
Plugin
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No
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SVG Editing |
No
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No
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Plugin
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No
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MindMap Editing |
Optional
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Plugin
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Media Search |
Filenames only
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Keywords
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Contents
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Keywords
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Extras | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
Calendar |
No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Plugin
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Image Galleries |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Presentations |
No
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Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Forums |
No
|
Plugin
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Blogs |
No
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No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Ticket System |
No
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No
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Plugin
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Optional
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Chat |
No
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Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Syntax Examples | BookStack | MediaWiki | XWiki | BlueSpice MediaWiki |
Internal Link |
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[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
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) |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
External Link |
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[http://example.org The title] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://example.org The title] |
Headlines |
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==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
Bold Format |
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'''bold''' |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
Italics Format |
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''italic'' |
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
Underline Format |
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<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
Monospace Format |
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<tt>monospace</tt> |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
Strikethrough Format |
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<s>strikethrough</s> |
--Strike-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
Superscript Format |
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<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Subscript Format |
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<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Images |
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[[Image:wiki.png]] |
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 |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
Aligning Text |
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<center>Centered</center> |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
Text Indentation |
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: indented line |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
: indented line |
Bulleted Lists |
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* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
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# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
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; term : definition |
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
Horizontal Rule |
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