General Features | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
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Version |
2.1.1
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16.3.0
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0.30.0
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1.6.6
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2.1.8
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Last Release Date |
2004-05-13 (19 years ago)
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2024-04-29 (4 days ago)
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2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
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2015-08-28 (8 years ago)
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2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
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Last Update here |
2006-02-14 (18 years ago)
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2024-04-30 (3 days ago)
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2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
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2015-08-29 (8 years ago)
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2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
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Author |
Frank Carver
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XWiki Development Team
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David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
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Radomir Dopieralski
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Foswiki Community
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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 |
ASL or LGPL
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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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GPL v2
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GPL
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Programming Language |
Java
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Java
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Ruby on Rails
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Python
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Perl
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Data Storage |
Files
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Database, RCS
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Database
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Files, RCS
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Files, 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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$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 |
private users and small teams
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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general, education
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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Hosting Features | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
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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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Own Domain |
N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Ads allowed |
N/A
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No
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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System Requirements | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
Operating System |
Any that can run Java 1.3 or later
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
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Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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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 |
Any that can run or call Java
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Servlet 3.1+
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Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
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Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Other Requirements |
Java 1.3 or later
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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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Mercurial
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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Datastorage | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
Text Files |
Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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MySQL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Oracle |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
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No
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No
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SQLite |
No
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No
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Yes
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Optional
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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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No
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RCS |
No
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Other |
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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Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
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caching of content into database using plugins
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Security/Anti-Spam | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
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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No
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Yes
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Authentication Backends |
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
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n/a
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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Host Blocking |
Patch
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No
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Mail Encryption |
No
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Yes
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Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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nofollow |
Optional
|
No
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Unknown
|
No
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Yes
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Blacklist |
No
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Plugin
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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CAPTCHA |
No
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Yes
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Unknown
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Optional
|
Plugin
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Delayed Indexing |
No
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Yes
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Unknown
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No
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Plugin
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Development/Support | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
# of Consultants | |||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Code Repository | |||||
Issue Tracker | |||||
Mailing List | |||||
Support Forum | |||||
Chat Channel |
#wiki at freenode.net
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Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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478 ⭐
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N/A
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97 ⭐
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Common Features | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
Preview |
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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Minor Changes |
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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Change Summary |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Page History |
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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Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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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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Between all
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Sitemap |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin System |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Special Features | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
Unicode Support |
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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Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
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No
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Yes
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Optional
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No
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Interface Languages |
0
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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 |
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish |
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 |
Email notification |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Comments |
No
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Threaded
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No
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No
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Plugin
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Categories |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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Namespaces |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Optional
|
Yes
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Conflict Handling |
None
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Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
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Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
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Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
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Unknown
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Unknown
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No
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Search |
Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
Plugin
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Structured Data |
Unknown
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Yes
|
No
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No
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Yes
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Links | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
Optional
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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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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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Yes
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InterWiki |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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SisterWiki |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Plugin
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Image Links |
Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Windows Shares |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Plugin
|
Page Redirects |
Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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Syntax Features | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
HTML Tags |
None
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All
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All
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None
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All
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Math formulas |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
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Plugin
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Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
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simple + complex
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simple
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simple + complex
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CREOLE support |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Plugin
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Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Plugin
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Textile Support |
Optional
|
No
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Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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BBCode Support |
Optional
|
No
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No
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No
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Plugin
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Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
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No
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Optional
|
Plugin
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Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
Plugin
|
Footnotes |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Internal Comments |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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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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Yes
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FAQ Tags |
No
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Plugin
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
None
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JavaScript
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JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
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Content Includes |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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Feed Aggregation |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Usability | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Plugin
|
Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
WYSIWYG Editing |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Access Keys |
Unknown
|
Yes
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Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Statistics | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Orphaned Pages |
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
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Output | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
Printer Friendly |
No
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Print CSS
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Print View
|
Print CSS
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Print View
|
Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Auto-TOC |
No
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Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Media and Files | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
File Attachments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Extras | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Syntax Examples | Friki | XWiki | Instiki | Hatta | Foswiki |
Internal Link |
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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]] |
[[link]] [[link|label]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
External Link |
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[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[another site](http://example.com) |
http://example.com [[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|label]] [[http://example.com|{{image}}]] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
Headlines |
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= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
= h1 = == h2 == ... ===== h5 ===== |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
Bold Format |
'''bold'' |
**bold** |
**bold** |
**bold** |
*bold* |
Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//Italics// |
_italic_, *italic* |
//italic// |
_italic_ |
Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
underlined {: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
n/a |
<u>underline</u> |
Monospace Format |
monospace |
##monospace## |
`monospace` |
{{{verbatim}}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
Strikethrough Format |
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--Strike-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> strikethrough {: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
n/a |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
n/a |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
n/a |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Images |
http://stringtree.org/friki/logo.gif |
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]] |
{{image}} {{image|alt}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png %IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
Aligning Text |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
p{: style='text-align:left'} p{: style='text-align:right'} p{: style='text-align:center'} p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
n/a |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Text Indentation |
: indented |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
p {: style='margin-left:3em'} > blockquote |
n/a |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
Bulleted Lists |
* first * second |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* list ** sublist |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
1. first 1. second |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
n/a |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
title: description |
; term : definition |
term : definition |
n/a |
$ Term: Definition |
Horizontal Rule |
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