These are the basic formatting rules of several popular wiki engines.
| Wiki engine | Italics | Bold |
| MediaWiki | ''italics'' | '''bold''' |
| MoinMoin | ''italics'' | '''bold''' |
| OddMuse | /italics/ or ''italics'' Footnote *) | *bold* or '''bold''' Footnote *) |
| OpenWiki | //italics// and ''italics'' | **bold** and '''bold''' |
| PhpWiki | _italics_ | *bold* |
| PmWiki | ''italics'' | '''bold''' |
| ProWiki | ''italics'' | '''bold''' |
| TikiWiki | ''italics'' | _bold_ |
| UseMod | ''italics'' | '''bold''' |
| WakkaWiki? | //italics// | **bold** |
| XWiki | ||
see also community-wiki: clean linking
| Wiki engine | Free link | Clean internal link | Clean external link | clean InterWiki link |
| MediaWiki | [[Page name]] | [[Page name|clean link]] | [http://url clean link] | [[InterWikiName:PageName|clean link]] |
| MoinMoin | ["Page name"] | [wiki:PageName clean link] | [http://url clean link] | [wiki:InterWikiName/PageName clean link] |
| OddMuse | [[Page name]] | [PageName clean link] or [[Page name|clean link]] Footnote **) | [http://url clean link] | [InterWikiName:PageName clean link] |
| OpenWiki | [[Page name]] | [PageName clean link] or [[Page name | clean link]] | [http://url clean link] | [InterWikiName:PageName clean link] |
| PhpWiki | [clean link] | [clean link | PageName] | [clean link | http://url] | [clean link | InterWikiName:PageName] |
| PmWiki | ***) | [[PageName |clean link]] | [[http://url | clean]] or [[clean -> http://url]] | [[InterWikiName:PageName | clean link]] |
| ProWiki | [PageName clean link] | [http://url clean link] | [InterWikiName:PageName clean link] | |
| TikiWiki | ((Page name)) | ((PageName|clean link)) | [http://url|clean link] | ? |
| UseMod | [[Page name]] | [[PageName|clean link]] | [http://url clean link] | [InterWikiName:PageName clean link] |
| WakkaWiki? | [[Name]] Footnote ****) | [[PageName clean link]] | [[http://url clean link]] | [[InterWikiName:PageName clean link]] |
| XWiki | ||||
| Wiki engine | User page |
| MediaWiki | [[User:UserName]] |
| MoinMoin | no |
| OddMuse | no |
| OpenWiki | |
| PhpWiki | |
| PmWiki | no |
| ProWiki | |
| TikiWiki | |
| UseMod | no |
| WakkaWiki? | no |
| XWiki |
The WakkaWiki? rules in this page also apply to WikkaWiki, a popular fork of WakkaWiki?.
What are SW and WW?
Feature=fett SW=<n>?</n>
Feature=clean link, internal WW=<n>[[PageName_clean_link?]]</n>
Feature=clean link, external WW=<n>[clean link]</n>
Feature=clean link, external, using InterWikiName? WW=<n>InterWikiName:PageName clean link</n>
*) Markup depends on the installed markup extension
**) Works only if some options were set on in the wiki installation
***) You can only create pseudo-free links. The words are smashed together automatically in URLs.
****) Spaces and other forbidden characters are not possible in page names.
The initial version was copied from GrĂ¼nder-wiki: hitchhiker's guide to wikilandia. See also VersionHistory.