General Features | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
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Version |
2.1.8
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2.3.33
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1.9.11
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16.3.1
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Last Release Date |
2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
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2024-04-20 (23 days ago)
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2020-11-07 (3 years ago)
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2024-05-09 (4 days ago)
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Last Update here |
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
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2024-04-21 (22 days ago)
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2020-11-08 (3 years ago)
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2024-05-13 (today)
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Author |
Foswiki Community
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Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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https://moinmo.in/MoinCoreTeamGroup
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XWiki Development Team
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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 |
GPL
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GPL2+
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GPL
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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Programming Language |
Perl
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PHP
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Python
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Java
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Data Storage |
Files, RCS
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Files
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Files
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Database, RCS
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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 |
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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All
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Everybody with <<100.000 pages. :)
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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Hosting Features | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
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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N/A
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Yes
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Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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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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System Requirements | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably any platform with Python 2.3+
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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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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Webserver |
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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Standalone, WSGI (e.g. Apache+mod_wsgi) - others like CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, AJP, ... via middlewares
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Servlet 3.1+
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Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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none
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None
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Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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Datastorage | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
Text Files |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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MySQL |
No
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
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PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Oracle |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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SQLite |
No
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Plugin
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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 |
Yes
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Plugin
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No
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Plugin
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Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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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 | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
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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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
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modular, scriptable. OpenID, ldap/AD, http, cookie, ssl client cert, interwiki, others possible
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XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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Host Blocking |
Plugin
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Optional
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Yes
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No
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Mail Encryption |
Yes
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Optional
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Optional
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Yes
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nofollow |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Blacklist |
Plugin
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Optional
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Yes
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Plugin
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CAPTCHA |
Plugin
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Plugin
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Optional
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Yes
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Delayed Indexing |
Plugin
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Optional
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No
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Yes
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Development/Support | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
# of Consultants | ||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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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 |
97 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Common Features | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Minor Changes |
Yes
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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 |
Unlimited
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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 |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin System |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Special Features | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
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 |
No
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Optional
|
Yes
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No
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Interface Languages |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, 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 |
Email notification |
Yes
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Optional
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Yes
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Yes
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Comments |
Plugin
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Discussion Pages
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Discussion Pages
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Threaded
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Categories |
Plugin
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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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No
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Yes
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Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
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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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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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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 |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Structured Data |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Links | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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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 |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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InterWiki |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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SisterWiki |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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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 |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Syntax Features | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
Some
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All
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Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Tables |
simple + complex
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simple + complex
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complex
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simple + complex
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CREOLE support |
Plugin
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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No
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Yes
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Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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No
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BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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No
|
No
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Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
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No
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Yes
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Internal Comments |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom styles |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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FAQ Tags |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
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MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
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plugins, see comment ---------------->
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velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
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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 |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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Usability | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
Section Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
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Page Templates |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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No
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Toolbar |
Plugin
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
No
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Statistics | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Output | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
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Print View
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Print CSS
|
Print CSS
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Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
XML export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Office Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
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Media and Files | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Extras | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Presentations |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Blogs |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Chat |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Syntax Examples | Foswiki | PmWiki | MoinMoin | XWiki |
Internal Link |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
CamelCaseLink or [[free link]] [[target|label|params]] |
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) |
External Link |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://google.de/ or [[http://google.de/ | Google]] or file://///server/share/file |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
Headlines |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === ==== Level 4 ==== ===== Level 5 ===== |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
Bold Format |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' '''strong emphasised''' |
**bold** |
Italics Format |
_italic_ |
''italic'' |
''italic'' ''emphasised'' |
//Italics// |
Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
{+underlined+} |
__underline__ |
__underline__ |
Monospace Format |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
@@monospace@@ |
`monospaced` |
##monospace## |
Strikethrough Format |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
{-strikethrough-} |
--(strikethrough)-- |
--Strike-- |
Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
^superscript^ |
^^superscript^^ |
Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
,,subscript,, |
,,subscript,, |
Images |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png %IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}} {{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}} {{target|alt|params}} |
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 |
Aligning Text |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
only in tables: ||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right || |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
Text Indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
indented text |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
Definition Lists |
$ Term: Definition |
: term : definition |
term:: definition |
; term : definition |
Horizontal Rule |
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