General Features | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
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Version |
0.30.0
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16.3.1
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2.4.0
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1.3.0.0
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Last Release Date |
2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
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2024-05-09 (9 days ago)
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2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
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2013-08-01 (10 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
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2024-05-13 (5 days ago)
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2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
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2013-08-29 (10 years ago)
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Author |
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
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XWiki Development Team
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Roger Rene Kommer
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J.W. Davidson
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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 |
Ruby's
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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Apache License, Version 2.0
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Apache License 2.0
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Programming Language |
Ruby on Rails
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Java
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Java
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C#
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Data Storage |
Database
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Database, RCS
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Database, Files
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Database, Files
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License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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Free
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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 |
general, education
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
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small organization to enterprise
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Hosting Features | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
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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Yes
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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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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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System Requirements | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
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Windows
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Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Webserver |
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
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Servlet 3.1+
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All Java Servlet Container, included
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IIS7 or IIS8
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Other Requirements |
Ruby 2.0-2.6
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Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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Java 1.8+
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IronPython
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Datastorage | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
Text Files |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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MySQL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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PostgreSQL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Oracle |
Plugin
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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SQLite |
Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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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 |
No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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No
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Other |
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
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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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Google Datastore
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MS SQL, MS SQL Express
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Security/Anti-Spam | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
Page Permissions |
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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Yes
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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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Internal and external with adapter
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MS Membership and Roles
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Host Blocking |
Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Mail Encryption |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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No
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nofollow |
Unknown
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No
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Optional
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No
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Blacklist |
Yes
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
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CAPTCHA |
Unknown
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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No
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Development/Support | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
# of Consultants | ||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Code Repository | ||||
Issue Tracker | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
Support Forum | ||||
Chat Channel | ||||
Stars on GitHub |
478 ⭐
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N/A
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4 ⭐
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N/A
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Common Features | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
Preview |
No
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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 |
No
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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
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin System |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Special Features | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
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 |
Yes
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No
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Optional
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No
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Interface Languages |
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 |
2
German, English |
1
English |
Email notification |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Comments |
No
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Threaded
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Threaded
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Discussion Pages
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Categories |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Namespaces |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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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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None
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Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
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Plugin
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No
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Unknown
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Search |
Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Full Text
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Wiki Farming |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Structured Data |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Links | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
CamelCase |
Optional
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Yes
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Plugin
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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 |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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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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Image Links |
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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Yes
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Page Redirects |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Syntax Features | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
HTML Tags |
All
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All
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All
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None
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Math formulas |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Tables |
simple + complex
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simple + complex
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simple + complex
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simple + complex
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CREOLE support |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Markdown Support |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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Textile Support |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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BBCode Support |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Emoticon Images |
No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Footnotes |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Quoting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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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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No
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FAQ Tags |
No
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Plugin
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No
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Yes
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Scripting |
None
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velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
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Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
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IronPython
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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 |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Usability | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
Section Editing |
No
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Yes
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Plugin
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No
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Page Templates |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Double-Click Edit |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Toolbar |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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WYSIWYG Editing |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Access Keys |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Auto Signature |
Yes
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No
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Plugin
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No
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Statistics | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Wanted Pages |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Orphaned Pages |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Most/Least Popular |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Recent Visitors |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Analysis |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Output | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
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Print CSS
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Print CSS
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Print CSS
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Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Themes & Skins |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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RSS Feeds |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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ATOM Feeds |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Abbreviations |
Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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Auto-TOC |
Yes
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Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Raw Export |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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XML export |
No
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Yes
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No
|
No
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PDF Export |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Office Export |
Unknown
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Yes
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No
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Unknown
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Media and Files | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Media Revisions |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Embedded Flash |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Embedded Video |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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SVG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Extras | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
Calendar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
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Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
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Syntax Examples | Instiki | XWiki | GWiki | LynxWiki |
Internal Link |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
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) |
[path/Page] [My Title|path/Page] |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
External Link |
[another site](http://example.com) |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://example.com] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org "Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org "this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com |
Headlines |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
h1. Heading 1 h2. Heading 2 |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 6 |
Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
*Bold Format* |
*bold* '''bold''' |
Italics Format |
_italic_, *italic* |
//Italics// |
_Italic format_ |
_italics_ |
Underline Format |
underlined {: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
__underline__ |
+Unterlined+ |
+underlined+ |
Monospace Format |
`monospace` |
##monospace## |
{{Monospace}} |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> strikethrough {: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
--Strike-- |
-StrikeThrough- |
-strikethrough- |
Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
^Superscript^ |
superscript^234^ |
Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
~Subscript~ |
water: H~2~O |
Images |
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg), [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
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 |
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png! |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
Aligning Text |
p{: style='text-align:left'} p{: style='text-align:right'} p{: style='text-align:center'} p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
{div:style=...} Aligned Text {div} |
N/A |
Text Indentation |
p {: style='margin-left:3em'} > blockquote |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
{div:style=...} Aligned Text {div} |
N/A |
Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
- Item 1 - Item 2 -- Sub Item |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
Numbered Lists |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Item 1 # Item 2 ## Sub Item |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
Definition Lists |
term : definition |
; term : definition |
* Item 1 * Item 2 ** Sub Item |
N/A |
Horizontal Rule |
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