General Features | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Version |
0.56
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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TWiki-6.1.0
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5.1.21
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phpwiki-1.3.14
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1.32.2
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Last Release Date |
2012-04-01 (12 years ago)
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2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
|
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
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2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2012-07-16 (11 years ago)
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2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
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2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
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2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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Author |
Jaap Karssenberg
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Andreas Gohr
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Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
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Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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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
|
License |
GPL
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GPL 2
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GPL
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BSD
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GPL
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GPL
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Programming Language |
Python
|
PHP
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Perl, JavaScript
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HTML, JavaScript
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PHP
|
PHP
|
Data Storage |
Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Files
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Database, Files, RCS
|
Database
|
License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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N/A
|
0
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0
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0
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Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
|
Intended Audience |
Private users, small teams
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
Any
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
System Requirements | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
Operating System |
Linux, Windows, OSX
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Any
|
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Webserver |
None
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Other Requirements |
Desktop environment with Gtk toolkit
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
A common browser
|
various opt. helpers
|
none
|
|
Datastorage | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Other |
Text Files with index in SQLite
|
None
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
No
|
Security/Anti-Spam | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Authentication Backends |
File permissions
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
optional extensions available
|
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
Yes
|
Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Development/Support | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
# of Consultants | ||||||
Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Code Repository | ||||||
Issue Tracker | ||||||
Mailing List | ||||||
Support Forum | ||||||
Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
|||||
Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
|
7039 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Common Features | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
Preview |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Page History |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Special Features | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Interface Languages |
27
Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, 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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, 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 |
Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Categories |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Structured Data |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Links | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Page Redirects |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syntax Features | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
HTML Tags |
None
|
Optional
|
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
Some
|
Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Tables |
none
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Emoticon Images |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Internal Comments |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom styles |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Scripting |
None
|
Optional, PHP
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
JavaScript
|
plugins, templates, PHP
|
Optional
|
Content Includes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Usability | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Statistics | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
Recent Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Most/Least Popular |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Analysis |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Output | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Themes & Skins |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
XML export |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Media and Files | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Embedded Flash |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Embedded Video |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
No
|
Keywords
|
Extras | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Image Galleries |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Forums |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Blogs |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Syntax Examples | Zim | DokuWiki | TWiki | TiddlyWiki | PhpWiki | MediaWiki |
Internal Link |
CamelCase [[foobar:subpage]] +subpage |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
External Link |
wp?Wiki_Engine http://wikimatrix.org ftp://somehost/share \\host\share\.. |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
[http://example.org The title] |
Headlines |
=== Heading === |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
*bold* |
''bold'' |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
'''bold''' |
Italics Format |
//italic// |
//italics// |
_italic_ |
//italic// |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
''italic'' |
Underline Format |
__underline__ |
__underlined__ |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
<u>underlined</u> |
Monospace Format |
``monospace`` |
''monospace'' |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
{{{monospaced}}} |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
Strikethrough Format |
~~strike~~ |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
Superscript Format |
^{sup} |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>above</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
Subscript Format |
_{sub} |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~~subscript~~ |
<sub>below</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
Images |
{{./image.png}} |
{{local.jpg}} {{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.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 |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
Aligning Text |
not implemented |
Plugin |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
using custom classes, e.g. {{right{ text }}} |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
<center>Centered</center> |
Text Indentation |
indent with tabs |
N/A |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
: indented line |
Bulleted Lists |
* List item * sub items * with indent |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* list or - list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
Numbered Lists |
1. List item a. with sub items b. ... |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# list |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
Definition Lists |
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Plugin |
$ Term: Definition |
; term : description |
Term:<def> def |
; term : definition |
Horizontal Rule |
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remove Zim | remove DokuWiki | remove TWiki | remove TiddlyWiki | remove PhpWiki | remove MediaWiki |