Wikia vs. XWiki vs. PBwiki vs. DokuWiki vs. Wikidot vs. MediaWiki

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)

CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]

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

[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]

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

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

[http://www.externallink.com]

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

http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]

[http://example.org The title]

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

! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6

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

+++ headline level 3

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

**bold**

**bold**

**bold**

**bold text**

'''bold'''

//Italics//

''italics''

//italics//

//italic text//

''italic''

__underline__

__underline__

__underlined__

__underlined text__

<u>underlined</u>

##monospace##

<code>monospace</code>

''monospace''

{{monospaced text}}

<tt>monospace</tt>

--Strike--

-strikethrough-

<del>strikethrough</del>

--strikethrough text--

<s>strikethrough</s>

^^superscript^^

<sup>superscript</sup>

<sup>superscript</sup>

^^superscript^^

<sup>superscript</sup>

,,subscript,,

<sub>subscript</sub>

<sub>subscript</sub>

,,subscript,,

<sub>subscript</sub>

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

[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg

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

[[image src="..."]]

[[Image:wiki.png]]

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

<left>, <center>, <right>

Plugin

= Centered line

<center>Centered</center>

Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text

Indented block

N/A

> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.

: indented line

* List
** list
*** list

* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1

* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2

* element 1
* element 2

* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2

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

# Number #1
# Number #2

- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2

# element 1
# element 1

# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2

; term
: definition

<dl>
</dl>

Plugin

: item : description

; term : definition

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