General Features | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
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Version |
1.2.101
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TWiki-6.1.0
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1.0.1
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16.3.0
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0.30.0
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Last Release Date |
2006-06-14 (17 years ago)
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2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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2024-05-04 (1 day ago)
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2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
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2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2008-09-01 (15 years ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2006-08-23 (17 years ago)
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2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
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2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
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Author |
Raymond Camden
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Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
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Clay Alberty
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XWiki Development Team
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David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
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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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Yes
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License |
Apache
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GPL
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BSD
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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Ruby's
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Programming Language |
ColdFusion
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Perl, JavaScript
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C#
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Java
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Ruby on Rails
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Data Storage |
Database
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Files, RCS
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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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N/A
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Free
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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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Mature
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Intended Audience |
Mildly technical
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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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general, education
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Hosting Features | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
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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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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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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Corporate Branding |
N/A
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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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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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N/A
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No
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N/A
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System Requirements | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
Operating System |
Windows, Linux, Solaris
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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Windows
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
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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 |
Apache, IIS
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Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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IIS 5+
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Servlet 3.1+
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Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
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Other Requirements |
ColdFusion MX
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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.NET framework v2.0 or higher
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Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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Ruby 2.0-2.6
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Datastorage | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
Text Files |
Unknown
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Yes
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Unknown
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No
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No
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MySQL |
Yes
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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PostgreSQL |
Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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Oracle |
Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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Plugin
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SQLite |
Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Yes
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BerkeleyDB |
Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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No
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No
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RCS |
Unknown
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Yes
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Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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Other |
Access, SQL Server
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RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
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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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Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
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Security/Anti-Spam | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
Page Permissions |
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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ACL |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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.NET Membership platform
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XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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Host Blocking |
Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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No
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Yes
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Mail Encryption |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Unknown
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nofollow |
Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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No
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Unknown
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Blacklist |
Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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Plugin
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Yes
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CAPTCHA |
Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
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Unknown
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Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
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Unknown
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Development/Support | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
# of Consultants | |||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Code Repository | |||||
Issue Tracker | |||||
Mailing List | |||||
Support Forum | |||||
Chat Channel | |||||
Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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478 ⭐
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Common Features | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
Preview |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Minor Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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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
|
Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Between all
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Sitemap |
Yes
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Yes
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Unknown
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin System |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Special Features | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
Unicode Support |
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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Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Yes
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Interface Languages |
0
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19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
Email notification |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Comments |
Threaded
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No
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Threaded
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No
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Categories |
Unknown
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Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Namespaces |
Unknown
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
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Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Plugin
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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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Wiki Farming |
Unknown
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Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
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Links | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Optional
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Freelinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Backlinks |
Unknown
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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InterWiki |
Unknown
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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SisterWiki |
Unknown
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Plugin
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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Image Links |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Windows Shares |
Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
|
No
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Page Redirects |
Unknown
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Plugin
|
Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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Syntax Features | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
HTML Tags |
All
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Some
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All
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All
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Math formulas |
Unknown
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Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Tables |
simple + complex
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none
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simple + complex
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simple + complex
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CREOLE support |
Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Markdown Support |
Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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Textile Support |
Unknown
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Plugin
|
Unknown
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No
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Yes
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BBCode Support |
Unknown
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No
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Unknown
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No
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No
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Emoticon Images |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Syntax Highlighting |
Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Footnotes |
Unknown
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Plugin
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Quoting |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Internal Comments |
Unknown
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom styles |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
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No
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Plugin
|
No
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Scripting |
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
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velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
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None
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Content Includes |
Unknown
|
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
No
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Usability | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
Section Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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Page Templates |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Double-Click Edit |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Toolbar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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WYSIWYG Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Statistics | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
Recent Changes |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Most/Least Popular |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
No
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Recent Visitors |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Analysis |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Output | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
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Print View
|
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Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Themes & Skins |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
ATOM Feeds |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Abbreviations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Auto-TOC |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Raw Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
XML export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
PDF Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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Media and Files | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
File Attachments |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Embedded Video |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
No
|
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Extras | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Syntax Examples | CanvasWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | XWiki | Instiki |
Internal Link |
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WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[pagename] |
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) |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
External Link |
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http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
{title|url} |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[another site](http://example.com) |
Headlines |
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---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
!, !!, !!! |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
Bold Format |
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*bold* |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
Italics Format |
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_italic_ |
''italics'' |
//Italics// |
_italic_, *italic* |
Underline Format |
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<u>underline</u> |
__under__ |
__underline__ |
underlined {: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
Monospace Format |
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=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
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##monospace## |
`monospace` |
Strikethrough Format |
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<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
--Strike-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> strikethrough {: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
Superscript Format |
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<sup>superscript</sup> |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Subscript Format |
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<sub>subscript</sub> |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Images |
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%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
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](http://ex.com/image.jpg), [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
Aligning Text |
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
available through custom tags |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
p{: style='text-align:left'} p{: style='text-align:right'} p{: style='text-align:center'} p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
Text Indentation |
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
multiple spaces -> |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
p {: style='margin-left:3em'} > blockquote |
Bulleted Lists |
|
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
|
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# ## ### #### |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
|
$ Term: Definition |
|
; term : definition |
term : definition |
Horizontal Rule |
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