| General Features | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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16.2.0
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1.32.2
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N/A
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| Last Release Date |
N/A
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2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
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2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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N/A
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| Last Update here |
2013-02-18 (11 years ago)
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2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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2010-08-16 (13 years ago)
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| Author |
Wikia, Inc.
|
XWiki Development Team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
PBworks
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
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Yes
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Yes
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N/A
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| License |
N/A
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPL
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N/A
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| Programming Language |
N/A
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Java
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PHP
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N/A
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| Data Storage |
N/A
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Database, RCS
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Database
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N/A
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| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
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0
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0
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Determined by Solution Needs
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| Development status |
N/A
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Mature
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Mature
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N/A
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| Intended Audience |
All users
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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Business Enterprises
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| Hosting Features | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Storage Quota |
unlimited
|
N/A
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No limit
|
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| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited
|
N/A
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No limit
|
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| Other Limits |
none
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N/A
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None
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
N/A
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None
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| System Requirements | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Operating System |
N/A
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
N/A
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| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
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| Webserver |
N/A
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Servlet 3.1+
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Any with PHP support
|
N/A
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| Other Requirements |
N/A
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Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
none
|
N/A
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| Datastorage | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
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| MySQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
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| RCS |
N/A
|
Plugin
|
No
|
N/A
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| Other |
N/A
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JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
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No
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N/A
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| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
Yes
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Yes
|
N/A
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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N/A
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||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
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|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
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
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Special Features | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Interface Languages |
0
|
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu |
1
English |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
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| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
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Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
N/A
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
Yes
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Optional
|
Javascript
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Output | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikia | XWiki | MediaWiki | PBwiki |
| Internal Link |
|
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) |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
| External Link |
|
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
| Headlines |
|
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
|
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
| Underline Format |
|
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
|
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<code>monospace</code> |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--Strike-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
|
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 |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
| Aligning Text |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
| Text Indentation |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
: indented line |
Indented block |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
| Numbered Lists |
|
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
| Definition Lists |
|
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
<dl> </dl> |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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