General Features | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
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Version |
2.0.045
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2.1.8
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TWiki-6.1.0
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2.3.13
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Last Release Date |
2006-10-13 (17 years ago)
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2023-08-05 (9 months ago)
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2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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2018-09-03 (5 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2009-11-28 (14 years ago)
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2023-10-16 (7 months ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2018-10-27 (5 years ago)
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Author |
Helmut Leitner
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Foswiki Community
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Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
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Alex Schroeder
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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 |
GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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GPL
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Programming Language |
Perl
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Perl
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Perl, JavaScript
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Perl
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Data Storage |
Files
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Files, RCS
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Files, RCS
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Files
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License Cost/ Fee |
0
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$0
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N/A
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free
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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 |
individual Wiki projects, everybody who needs more than a single wiki for a single purpose
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Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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family people, hackers
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System Requirements | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
Operating System |
Unix / Linux
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
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Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
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Anything supported by Perl
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Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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Webserver |
Apache (probably anything supporting CGI)
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Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
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Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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Anything supporting CGI scripts
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Other Requirements |
none
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
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Writable data directory
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Datastorage | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
Text Files |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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MySQL |
No
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No
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No
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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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Oracle |
No
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No
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No
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No
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SQLite |
No
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No
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No
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No
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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 |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Other |
caching of content into database using plugins
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RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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No
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Security/Anti-Spam | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
Page Permissions |
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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Yes
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No
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Authentication Backends |
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
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None (use your web server instead)
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Host Blocking |
Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Yes
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Mail Encryption |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
|
nofollow |
Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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No
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Blacklist |
Yes
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Plugin
|
Plugin
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Optional
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CAPTCHA |
No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Delayed Indexing |
No
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Plugin
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Plugin
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No
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Development/Support | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
# of Consultants | ||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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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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97 ⭐
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N/A
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67 ⭐
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Common Features | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
Preview |
Yes
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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 |
Yes
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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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Restricted by Age
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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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin System |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Special Features | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
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 |
No
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No
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No
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Optional
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Interface Languages |
8
German, English, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian |
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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
Email notification |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Comments |
No
|
Plugin
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Threaded
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Discussion Pages
|
Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
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Conflict Resolution
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Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
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Unknown
|
No
|
Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
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Optional
|
Plugin
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Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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Links | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
CamelCase |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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SisterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Windows Shares |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
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Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Syntax Features | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
All
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Plugin
|
Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
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simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Internal Comments |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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FAQ Tags |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Plugin
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Scripting |
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
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TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
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Perl
|
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Content Includes |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Usability | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
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Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Toolbar |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Statistics | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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Plugin
|
Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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No
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Recent Visitors |
No
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Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Output | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
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Print View
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Print View
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Print CSS
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Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
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Plugin
|
Yes
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Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
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Yes
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Optional
|
RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Auto-TOC |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
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Media and Files | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Optional
|
Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
SVG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Extras | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Forums |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Syntax Examples | ProWiki | Foswiki | TWiki | Oddmuse |
Internal Link |
CamelCase Wordlinking {{free link}} [page labelforlink] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
optional, default on: [[page name]] optional, default off: PageName [PageName] → [1] [[[page name]]] → [1] [PageName text] → text [[page name|text]] → text Depending on plugins: [text](page) → text |
External Link |
http://example.org InterWiki:page [some:link labelforlink] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
http://example.com/ [http://example.com/] → [1] optional, default on: [http://example.com/ text] → text Depending on plugins: [text](http://example.com/) → text |
Headlines |
= Headline 1 = == Headline 2 = === Headline 3 = ==== Headline 4 = ===== Headline 5 = ====== Headline 6 = |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
Depending on plugins: ## two ### three == two == === three == section ======= subsection ---------- |
Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
*bold* |
Depending on plugins: *bold* **bold* '''bold''' |
Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
_italic_ |
Depending on plugins: *italic* /italic/ //italic// ''italic'' |
Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
<u>underline</u> |
Depending on plugins: _underline_ __underline__ |
Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
Depending on plugins: `mono` ##mono## [code]mono[/code] <tt>mono</tt> <code>mono</code> |
Strikethrough Format |
[[strike]strikethrough text] |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
via bbCode plugin: [s]strike through[/s] |
Superscript Format |
<sup>text</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
via bbCode plugin: [sup]superscript[/sup] |
Subscript Format |
<sub>text</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
via bbCode plugin: [sub]subscript[/sub] |
Images |
http://example.org/file.jpg Upload:file.gif [[Image]...options...] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png %IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
http://example.com/pic.jpg Depending on plugins: [[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants ![text](URL) |
Aligning Text |
only as part of tables or citations [align:left|center|right] |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
no example known |
Text Indentation |
: indented line :: indented line |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
Depending on plugins: > text [quote] text [/quote] : one :: two |
Bulleted Lists |
* bulleted list ** bulleted list |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* one ** two |
Numbered Lists |
# numbered list ## numbered list |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
Depending on plugins: 1. one 2. two # one ## two |
Definition Lists |
; term: definition |
$ Term: Definition |
$ Term: Definition |
Depending on plugins: ; term: definition |
Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
--- |
Depending on plugins: ---- |
remove ProWiki | remove Foswiki | remove TWiki | remove Oddmuse |