General Features | PmWiki | Confluence |
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Version |
2.3.33
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5.2
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Last Release Date |
2024-04-20 (19 days ago)
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2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2024-04-21 (18 days ago)
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2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
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Author |
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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Atlassian
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URL | ||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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No
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License |
GPL2+
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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Programming Language |
PHP
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Java
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Data Storage |
Files
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Database
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License Cost/ Fee |
0
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starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Intended Audience |
All
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Enterprise + Technical Teams
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Hosting Features | PmWiki | Confluence |
Storage Quota |
N/A
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Unlimited
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Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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Other Limits |
N/A
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No
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Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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No
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Corporate Branding |
N/A
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Yes
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Own Domain |
N/A
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Optional
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Ads allowed |
N/A
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No
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System Requirements | PmWiki | Confluence |
Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Windows, Linux and Unix variants
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Root Access |
No
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No
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Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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Apache Tomcat
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Other Requirements |
none
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Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
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Datastorage | PmWiki | Confluence |
Text Files |
Yes
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No
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MySQL |
Plugin
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Yes
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PostgreSQL |
No
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Yes
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Oracle |
No
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Yes
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SQLite |
Plugin
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No
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BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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RCS |
Plugin
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No
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Other |
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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Security/Anti-Spam | PmWiki | Confluence |
Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Authentication Backends |
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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LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
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Host Blocking |
Optional
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No
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Mail Encryption |
Optional
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Optional
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nofollow |
Yes
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Optional
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Blacklist |
Optional
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No
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CAPTCHA |
Plugin
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Yes
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Delayed Indexing |
Optional
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No
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Development/Support | PmWiki | Confluence |
# of Consultants | ||
Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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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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Common Features | PmWiki | Confluence |
Preview |
Yes
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Yes
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Minor Changes |
Yes
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Yes
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Change Summary |
Yes
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Yes
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Page History |
Yes
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Yes
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Page Revisions |
Unlimited
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Unlimited
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Revision Diffs |
Between all
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Between all
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Sitemap |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin System |
Yes
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Yes
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Special Features | PmWiki | Confluence |
Unicode Support |
Yes
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Yes
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Right-to-Left Support |
Optional
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No
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Interface Languages |
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 |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
Email notification |
Optional
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Yes
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Comments |
Discussion Pages
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Threaded
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Categories |
Yes
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Yes
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Namespaces |
Yes
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Yes
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Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Resolution
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Concurrent Editing |
Yes
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Unknown
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Search |
Full Text
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Full Text
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Wiki Farming |
Yes
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Yes
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Structured Data |
Yes
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Plugin
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Links | PmWiki | Confluence |
CamelCase |
Optional
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Yes
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Freelinks |
Yes
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Yes
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Backlinks |
Yes
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Yes
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InterWiki |
Yes
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Optional
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SisterWiki |
Plugin
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No
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Image Links |
Yes
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Yes
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Windows Shares |
Yes
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Yes
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Page Redirects |
Yes
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Plugin
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Syntax Features | PmWiki | Confluence |
HTML Tags |
Plugin
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Optional
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Math formulas |
Plugin
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Plugin
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Tables |
simple + complex
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simple + complex
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CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
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Markdown Support |
Plugin
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No
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Textile Support |
No
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Yes
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BBCode Support |
Plugin
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No
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Emoticon Images |
Plugin
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Yes
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Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
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Footnotes |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Quoting |
Plugin
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Yes
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Internal Comments |
Yes
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Plugin
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Custom styles |
Yes
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Yes
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FAQ Tags |
Yes
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Yes
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Scripting |
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
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Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
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Content Includes |
Yes
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Yes
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Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Usability | PmWiki | Confluence |
Section Editing |
Plugin
|
No
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Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
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Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
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Toolbar |
Optional
|
Yes
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WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
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Statistics | PmWiki | Confluence |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
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Wanted Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
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Orphaned Pages |
Optional
|
Yes
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Most/Least Popular |
No
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Yes
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Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
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Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Output | PmWiki | Confluence |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
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Print CSS
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Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
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Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
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RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
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ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
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Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
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Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
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Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
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HTML Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
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XML export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
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Media and Files | PmWiki | Confluence |
File Attachments |
Optional
|
Yes
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Media Revisions |
Optional
|
Yes
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Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
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MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Media Search |
Filenames only
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Contents
|
Extras | PmWiki | Confluence |
Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
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Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
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Ticket System |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Chat |
No
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Unknown
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Syntax Examples | PmWiki | Confluence |
Internal Link |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
External Link |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
Headlines |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italics_ |
Underline Format |
{+underlined+} |
+underline+ |
Monospace Format |
@@monospace@@ |
{{monospace}} |
Strikethrough Format |
{-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 |
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Aligning Text |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
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Text Indentation |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
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Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
Definition Lists |
: term : definition |
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Horizontal Rule |
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