| General Features | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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N/A
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5.2
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2.3.33
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| Last Release Date |
N/A
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N/A
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2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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2024-04-20 (28 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2020-08-06 (3 years ago)
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2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
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2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
|
2024-04-21 (27 days ago)
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| Author |
Stunf BV
|
Wikia, Inc.
|
Atlassian
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
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N/A
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No
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Yes
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| License |
N/A
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N/A
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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GPL2+
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| Programming Language |
N/A
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N/A
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Java
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
N/A
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N/A
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Database
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
Paid plans from $89/mo. Free for personal use.
|
$0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
0
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| Development status |
N/A
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N/A
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Companies, teams and professionals.
|
All users
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
All
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| Hosting Features | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Storage Quota |
161061273600
|
unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited
|
N/A
|
||
| Other Limits |
none
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No
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
No
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
N/A
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No
|
No
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| Webserver |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Apache Tomcat
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
none
|
| Datastorage | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
Plugin
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| Other |
N/A
|
N/A
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
N/A
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
| Host Blocking |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
N/A
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||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
1
English |
0
|
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
JavaScript
|
Yes
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | Papyrs | Wikia | Confluence | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
[Link](/page) |
|
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
[Link](https://papyrs.com) |
|
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
## Heading |
|
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
|
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
*italic* |
|
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underline</u> |
|
+underline+ |
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
`mono` |
|
{{monospace}} |
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
~~strikethrough~~ |
|
-strikethrough- |
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
|
|
^superscript^ |
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
|
|
~subscript~ |
'_subscript_' |
| Images |
|
|
|
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
|
|
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
|
|
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
- list - list |
|
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
1. list 2. list |
|
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
Link to [^1] [^1] some definition |
|
|
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
*** |
|
---- |
---- |
| remove Papyrs | remove Wikia | remove Confluence | remove PmWiki |