General Features | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
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Version |
0.9.1
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TWiki-6.1.0
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1.1.7
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2.3.32
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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2.1.8
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Last Release Date |
2007-02-12 (17 years ago)
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2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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March, 2007
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2024-03-23 (6 days ago)
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2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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2023-08-05 (7 months ago)
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Last Update here |
2007-02-13 (17 years ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2007-03-28 (17 years ago)
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2024-03-24 (5 days ago)
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2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
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2023-10-16 (5 months ago)
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Author |
Thomas Linden
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Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
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Brent P. Newhall, Brennen Bearnes
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Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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Andreas Gohr
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Foswiki Community
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URL | ||||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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License |
GPL
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GPL
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Public Domain
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GPL2+
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GPL 2
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GPL
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Programming Language |
Perl
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Perl, JavaScript
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Perl
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PHP
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PHP
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Perl
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Data Storage |
Files, RCS
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Files, RCS
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Files
|
Files
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Files
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Files, RCS
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License Cost/ Fee |
GPL / none
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N/A
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Free
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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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Mature
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Intended Audience |
average to advanced users
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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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Small groups and organizations, weblog authors, private users, and wiki-novices.
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All
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personal, small to medium companies
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
System Requirements | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
Operating System |
Unix
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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Linux, *BSD
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Webserver |
apache
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Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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Any that supports basic CGI.
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Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
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Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Other Requirements |
mod_rewrite optional
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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Depends on "diff" for revision tracking. Atom feeds are available with XML::Atom::SimpleFeed.
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none
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
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Datastorage | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
MySQL |
No
|
No
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No
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Plugin
|
No
|
No
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PostgreSQL |
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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No
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Oracle |
No
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No
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No
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No
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No
|
No
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SQLite |
No
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No
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No
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Plugin
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No
|
No
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BerkeleyDB |
No
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No
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No
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No
|
No
|
No
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RCS |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
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Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
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Other |
perl Storable(v0.7) for users, attributes and stuff
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RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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diffs
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Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
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None
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caching of content into database using plugins
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Security/Anti-Spam | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Authentication Backends |
builtin
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
None; Wala does not authenticate users.
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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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Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
nofollow |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Blacklist |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Development/Support | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
# of Consultants | ||||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
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Yes
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No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Code Repository | ||||||
Issue Tracker | ||||||
Mailing List | ||||||
Support Forum | ||||||
Chat Channel |
#49
|
|||||
Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
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3582 ⭐
|
97 ⭐
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Common Features | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
To current
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Sitemap |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Special Features | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
Unicode Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Interface Languages |
1
English |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
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 |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
Email notification |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Comments |
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Not available
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Links | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Syntax Features | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
All
|
None
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
All
|
Math formulas |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
CREOLE support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Textile Support |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
BBCode Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Scripting |
Perl
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
Optional, PHP
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
|
Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Usability | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Statistics | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Output | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Media and Files | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Embedded Flash |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Embedded Video |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Extras | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Forums |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Syntax Examples | PodWiki | TWiki | Wala Wiki | PmWiki | DokuWiki | Foswiki |
Internal Link |
POD: L<Sandbox> L<Link Description|Sandbox> Creole: [[Sandbox]] [[Sandbox|Link Description]] BBcode: [url]Sandbox[/url] [url=Sandbox]Link Description[/url] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
LinkDump, [link dump] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
External Link |
L<http://www.daemon.de> |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
[http://p1k3.com/ p1k3] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
Headlines |
=head1 The Weather |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
= headline = |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
Bold Format |
B<bold> |
*bold* |
'''bolded''' |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
*bold* |
Italics Format |
I<italics> |
_italic_ |
''italicized'' |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
_italic_ |
Underline Format |
via html only |
<u>underline</u> |
|
{+underlined+} |
__underlined__ |
<u>underline</u> |
Monospace Format |
put a space in front of monospaced text |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
monospaced. |
@@monospace@@ |
''monospace'' |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
Strikethrough Format |
via html only |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
|
{-strikethrough-} |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
Superscript Format |
via html only |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Subscript Format |
via html only |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Images |
G<logo.png> |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
http://p1k3.com/wheat.png - Image URL to include. |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
{{local.jpg}} {{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png %IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
Aligning Text |
via stylesheet only |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
Plugin |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
Text Indentation |
via stylesheet only |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
:Block-quoted text. |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
N/A |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
Bulleted Lists |
=over =item* listitem =back |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Bullet point * Bullet point |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
=over =item 1. listitem =back |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# One # Two # Three |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
via html only |
$ Term: Definition |
|
: term : definition |
Plugin |
$ Term: Definition |
Horizontal Rule |
--- |
--- |
---- |
---- |
---- |
--- |
remove PodWiki | remove TWiki | remove Wala Wiki | remove PmWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove Foswiki |