PukiWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. MoinMoin vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki

PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]

[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]

WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]

CamelCaseLink or [[free link]]

[[target|label|params]]

[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]

XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)

http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]

[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]

http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]

http://google.de/ or
[[http://google.de/ | Google]] or
file://///server/share/file

[http://example.org The title]

[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com

* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3

====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==

!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====

==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====

= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..

''bold''

**bold**

*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>

'''bold'''
'''strong emphasised'''

'''bold'''

**bold**

'''italic'''

//italics//

_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>

''italic''
''emphasised''

''italic''

//Italics//

%%%underlined%%%

__underlined__

<u>underlined</u>

__underline__

<u>underlined</u>

__underline__

N/A

''monospace''

<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>

`monospaced`

<tt>monospace</tt>

##monospace##

%%strikethrough%%

<del>strikethrough</del>

<strike>striked through</strike>

--(strikethrough)--

<s>strikethrough</s>

--Strike--

N/A

<sup>superscript</sup>

<sup>above</sup>

^superscript^

<sup>superscript</sup>

^^superscript^^

N/A

<sub>subscript</sub>

<sub>below</sub>

,,subscript,,

<sub>subscript</sub>

,,subscript,,

#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg

{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}

[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image

{{http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}}
{{attachment:foo.jpg | alt text}}
{{target|alt|params}}

[[Image:wiki.png]]

image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel

CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left

Plugin

<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

only in tables:
||<(> left ||<:> middle ||<)> right ||

<center>Centered</center>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text

N/A

N/A

;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

indented text

: indented line

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text

- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2

* list
or
- list

* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2

* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2

* List
** list
*** list

+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2

# list

1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2

1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4

:term|definition

Plugin

Term:<def>
def

term:: definition

; term : definition

; term
: definition

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