| General Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.2
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1.32.2
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26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
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N/A
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| Last Release Date |
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
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N/A
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| Last Update here |
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
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2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
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| Author |
Atlassian
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Tiki Software Community Association
|
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
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LGPL
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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
|
Database
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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
|
Mature
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Mature
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N/A
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| Intended Audience |
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
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Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
|
All users
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| Hosting Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | 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
|
N/A
|
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
|
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
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| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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| Own Domain |
Optional
|
N/A
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N/A
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Optional
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| Ads allowed |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| System Requirements | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| Operating System |
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
|
N/A
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
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| Webserver |
Apache Tomcat
|
Any with PHP support
|
Works on standard shared hosting
|
N/A
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| Other Requirements |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
none
|
None
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N/A
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| Datastorage | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
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N/A
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| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
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| SQLite |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
N/A
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
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| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
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| Other |
No
|
MariaDB
|
N/A
|
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Yes
|
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
|
N/A
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| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
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| Development/Support | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | 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
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N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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 | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Interface Languages |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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 |
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
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| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Links | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Textile Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
Optional
|
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
|
Yes
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Usability | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Statistics | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Confluence | MediaWiki | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Wikia |
| Internal Link |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
((Name of page)) or ((Name of page|link to a page)) or (semantic(link to a page)) or, if activated: CamelCase WikiWords |
|
| External Link |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://example.com] or [http://example.com|label] |
|
| Headlines |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
-= Titlebar =- ! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
|
| Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
|
| Italics Format |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
|
| Underline Format |
+underline+ |
<u>underlined</u> |
===underline=== |
|
| Monospace Format |
{{monospace}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
-+monospace+- |
|
| Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strike-- |
|
| Superscript Format |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
{SUP()}text{SUP} |
|
| Subscript Format |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
{SUB()}text{SUB} |
|
| Images |
|
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg} |
|
| Aligning Text |
|
<center>Centered</center> |
::centered text:: |
|
| Text Indentation |
|
: indented line |
leading spaces, if activated. |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
|
| Numbered Lists |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
|
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
;term:definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
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