| General Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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1.32.2
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N/A
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| Last Release Date |
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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N/A
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| Last Update here |
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
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2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
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| Author |
Atlassian
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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Wikia, Inc.
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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N/A
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| License |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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GPL 2
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GPL
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N/A
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| Programming Language |
Java
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PHP
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PHP
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N/A
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Files
|
Database
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N/A
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| License Cost/ Fee |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
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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N/A
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
personal, small to medium companies
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End Users/Desktop, Education
|
All users
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| Hosting Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Storage Quota |
Unlimited
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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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unlimited
|
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| Other Limits |
No
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N/A
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N/A
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none
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| Topic Restrictions |
No
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N/A
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N/A
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hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
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| Corporate Branding |
Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Own Domain |
Optional
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N/A
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N/A
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Optional
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| Ads allowed |
No
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| System Requirements | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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N/A
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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N/A
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| Webserver |
Apache Tomcat
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
N/A
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| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
none
|
N/A
|
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| Datastorage | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Text Files |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
N/A
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| MySQL |
Yes
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No
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Yes
|
N/A
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
N/A
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| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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N/A
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| SQLite |
No
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No
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Yes
|
N/A
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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No
|
N/A
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| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
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| Other |
None
|
No
|
N/A
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
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| Development/Support | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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N/A
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
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|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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| Special Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Interface Languages |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
140
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 |
0
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| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
N/A
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
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| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Some
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
Optional, PHP
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Usability | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Statistics | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Output | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | Wikia |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
|
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
|
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
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| Bold Format |
*bold* |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
|
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
|
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
|
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
|
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
| Images |
|
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
|
| Aligning Text |
|
Plugin |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
N/A |
: indented line |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
|
Plugin |
; term : definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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| remove Confluence | remove DokuWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove Wikia |