General Features | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
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Version |
1.3.0.0
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1.6
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0.30.0
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8.08.13
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2.3.32
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Last Release Date |
2013-08-01 (10 years ago)
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27/04/2013
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2019-02-28 (5 years ago)
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2008-08-12 (15 years ago)
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2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
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Last Update here |
2013-08-29 (10 years ago)
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2013-04-25 (10 years ago)
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2019-03-04 (5 years ago)
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2009-02-02 (15 years ago)
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2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
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Author |
J.W. Davidson
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C.Small
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David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
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Yuri Takhteyev
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Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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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 |
Apache License 2.0
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MS-PL
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Ruby's
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MIT/X
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GPL2+
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Programming Language |
C#
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C#
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Ruby on Rails
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Lua
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PHP
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Data Storage |
Database, Files
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Database
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Database
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Database, Files, RCS
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Files
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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 |
small organization to enterprise
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Small-mid sized teams, website wikis
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general, education
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Small teams or private users
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All
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System Requirements | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
Operating System |
Windows
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Windows Server, Ubuntu
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UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
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Linux, UNIX, OSX, Windows
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Root Access |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Webserver |
IIS7 or IIS8
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IIS, Apache
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Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
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Apache, CGI, Xavante
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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Other Requirements |
IronPython
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mono and mod_mono on Ubuntu
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Ruby 2.0-2.6
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gcc or Lua
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none
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Datastorage | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
Text Files |
Yes
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Patch
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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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Plugin
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Plugin
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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 |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Plugin
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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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No
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No
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No
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Plugin
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Other |
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
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SQL Server, MongoDB
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Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
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Git
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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Security/Anti-Spam | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
Page Permissions |
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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ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Authentication Backends |
MS Membership and Roles
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Database, Active Directory, custom if needed
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Yes
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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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Host Blocking |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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Mail Encryption |
No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Optional
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nofollow |
No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Yes
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Blacklist |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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CAPTCHA |
Yes
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Optional
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Unknown
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Yes
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Plugin
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Delayed Indexing |
No
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No
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Unknown
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No
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Optional
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Development/Support | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
# of Consultants | |||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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No
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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 | |||||
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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N/A
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Common Features | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
Preview |
Yes
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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 |
Yes
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No
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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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No
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No
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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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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
|
No
|
No
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Yes
|
Yes
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Special Features | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
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 |
No
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No
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Yes
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Unknown
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Optional
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Interface Languages |
1
English |
3
Czech, English, Polish |
1
English |
3
English, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian |
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 |
Email notification |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Optional
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Comments |
Discussion Pages
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No
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No
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No
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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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Yes
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Namespaces |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Conflict Handling |
None
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None
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Page Locking
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None
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Conflict Resolution
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Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Unknown
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Yes
|
Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Wiki Farming |
No
|
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Structured Data |
Yes
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No
|
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Links | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
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Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Backlinks |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
InterWiki |
No
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No
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Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
SisterWiki |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Plugin
|
Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Windows Shares |
Yes
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Yes
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No
|
No
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Yes
|
Page Redirects |
Yes
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No
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Yes
|
No
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Yes
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Syntax Features | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
HTML Tags |
None
|
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
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simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
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CREOLE support |
No
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Yes
|
No
|
No
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Optional
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Markdown Support |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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Textile Support |
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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No
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No
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BBCode Support |
No
|
No
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No
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No
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Plugin
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Emoticon Images |
Yes
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No
|
No
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No
|
Plugin
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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No
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Optional
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Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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No
|
Plugin
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Quoting |
No
|
No
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Yes
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Yes
|
Plugin
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Internal Comments |
Yes
|
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Custom styles |
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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FAQ Tags |
Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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Scripting |
IronPython
|
none
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None
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Lua, JavaScript
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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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Content Includes |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Plugin
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Usability | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
Section Editing |
No
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No
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No
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No
|
Plugin
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Page Templates |
No
|
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
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No
|
No
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Plugin
|
Toolbar |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
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Optional
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WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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Yes
|
Auto Signature |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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Yes
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Statistics | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Optional
|
Orphaned Pages |
No
|
No
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Yes
|
No
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Optional
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Most/Least Popular |
No
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No
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No
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No
|
No
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Recent Visitors |
No
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No
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No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Analysis |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Output | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
No
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Print View
|
Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Themes & Skins |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
PDF Export |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Media and Files | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Embedded Flash |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Extras | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
Calendar |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Blogs |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Syntax Examples | LynxWiki | Roadkill | Instiki | Sputnik | PmWiki |
Internal Link |
CamelCase "display text":DisplayText |
[[Pagename|linkname]] |
[[Some Page]] [[Some Page|anchor text]] [[Some Page#anchor]] [[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]] |
[[Sputnik]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
External Link |
http://www.wikimatrix.org "Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org "this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com |
[[URL|linkname]] |
[another site](http://example.com) |
[Sputnik](http://spu.tnik.org) |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
Headlines |
!!Header 2 !!!Header 3 !!!!!!Header 6 |
== Large heading |
#Level 1# ##Level 2## ###Level 3### ####Level 4#### #####Level 5##### ######Level 6###### |
# Sputnik |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
Bold Format |
*bold* '''bold''' |
** bold ** |
**bold** |
**Sputnik** or __Sputnik__ |
'''bold''' |
Italics Format |
_italics_ |
//italics// |
_italic_, *italic* |
*Sputnik* or _Sputnik_ |
''italic'' |
Underline Format |
+underlined+ |
_underline_ |
underlined {: style='text-decoration:underlined'} |
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{+underlined+} |
Monospace Format |
[indent single space] @mono space on single line@ @@ start on multiline with end @@ |
{{ monospace }} |
`monospace` |
|
@@monospace@@ |
Strikethrough Format |
-strikethrough- |
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<del>strikethrough</del> strikethrough {: style='text-decoration:line-through'} |
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{-strikethrough-} |
Superscript Format |
superscript^234^ |
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<sup>superscript</sup> |
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'^superscript^' |
Subscript Format |
water: H~2~O |
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<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
'_subscript_' |
Images |
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg] http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg |
{{Image.jpg.|title}} |
![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg), [[image.jpg|alt text:pic]] |
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https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
Aligning Text |
N/A |
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p{: style='text-align:left'} p{: style='text-align:right'} p{: style='text-align:center'} p{: style='text-align:justify'} |
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%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
Text Indentation |
N/A |
|
p {: style='margin-left:3em'} > blockquote |
> Sputnik |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
Bulleted Lists |
* first bullet (8 spaces) * first sub item bullet * second item |
* Bullet List ** Sub item |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Sputnik |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
1. first numbered item 1. second item |
# Numbered list ## Sub item |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 2. Item 2 |
1. Sputnik |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
N/A |
|
term : definition |
|
: term : definition |
Horizontal Rule |
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