List of wiki engines taken from Wiki Popularity. Also see Tables.
Rows versus Columns#
I think there are two ways, column and row orientation. Most wikis are row oriented. For some tasks rows are better, for some tasks columns are better. I'm astonished that not more wikis implement column based tables (perhaps because HTML, LaTeX are row oriented).>> Header1 > column1, row1 > column1, row2 > column1, row3 >> Header2 > column2, row1 > column2, row2 > column2, row3
This is easy to cut and paste, doesn't interfere with long lines, line breaks or markup. It's easy to add rows and easy to add columns. Hard thing is to find the right row when there are lots of rows and few columns (row orientation might be better then). Harder to implement than row orientation, because HTML is row oriented. Multi row is easy
>,> rowspan 2
but column span is more difficult. Could be done with an empty line
Most Popular Open Source Wiki Engines#
MediaWiki#
Complicated: MediaWiki table syntax 
Twiki#
| *L* | *C* | *R* | | A2 | 2 | 2 | | A3 | 3 | 3 | | multi span ||| | A4-6 | four | four | |^| five | five | |^| six | six |
TikiWiki#
| as delimiter (default)#
||row1-column1|row1-column2||row2-column1|row2-column2||
Newline as delimiter#
||row1-column1|row1-column2 row2-column1|row2-column2||
PukiWiki#
MoinMoin#
Simple tables:#
||'''A'''||'''B'''||'''C'''|| ||1 ||2 ||3 ||Complicated MoinMoin tables
 
PmWiki#
Simplest table:#
|| border=1 || cell 1 || cell 2 || cell 3 || || cell 1 || cell 2 || cell 3 |
Table directives, that helps to format tables in PmWiki 
DokuWiki#
^Hading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ |Cell 1.1 | 1.2 | |Cell 2.1 | 2.2 |DokuWiki table syntax
 
PhpWiki#
MoniWiki#
TiddlyWiki#
|!heading1|!heading2| |>| colspan | | rowspan |left| |~| right| |colored| center | |caption|c
JSPWiki#
JSPWiki table syntax 
|| Heading 1 || Heading 2 |Cell 1.1|1.2 |Cell 2.1|2.2
SnipSnap#
WackoWiki#
- Table with border
#| ||cell11|cell12|cell13|| ||cell21|cell22|| |#
- Table without border, 100% width
#|| ||cell11|cell12|cell13|| ||cell21|cell22|| ||#
Xwiki#
{table}
Category | Sales (K€)
Category 1 | 100
Category 2 | 50
Category 3 | 50
Total | =sum(B2:B4)
{table}
UseMod#
||'''Column A'''||'''Column B'''||'''Column C'''|| ||Entry for row 1, Column A||Entry for row 1, Column B||Entry for row 1, Column C|| ||Entry for row 2, Column A||Entry for row 2, Column B||Entry for row 2, Column C|| ||||Spanning entry|| Entry for row 3, Column C || ||||||More spanning||More details: UseMod Table Formatting
 
Oddmuse#
Simple tables:#
||'''A'''||'''B'''||'''C'''|| ||1 ||2 ||3 ||
Whitespace controls alignment (left, center, right). Empty cells are fused.
Complex tables:#
<table pos/r, country/l, oda/r> pos=Rank country=Country oda=%GNP pos=1 country=Norway oda=0.92 pos=2 country=Denmark oda=0.84 pos=3 country=Netherlands oda=0.81 pos/c=... pos=9 country=Switzerland oda=0.38 pos/c=... pos=22 country=United States oda/mark/r=0.14 ----
Result:
http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/download/Long_Table_Markup_Extension_Screenshot 
Columns are labelled, cells are created by assigning to labels. Cells can contain multiple paragraphs, lists, etc. CSS classes can be added per table, per column, or per cell. Missing cells are fused with neighbours.
Midgard Wiki#
FlexWiki#
Instiki#
Zwiki#
TracWiki#
Most Popular Commercial Wiki Engines#
Confluence#
With Table plugin: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Table-plus+macro 
{table-plus}
|| || January || February || March || April ||
| Max | 37.5 | 32.7 | 28.0 | 25.3 |
| Min | 31.3 | 26.8 | 25.1 | 18.7 |
{table-plus}
PBwiki#
- Table rows can be made by beginning and ending a line with <raw>|</raw> (vertical bar). The content of the row is placed between the bars. If more than one cell is desired for any particular row, an additional <raw>|</raw> is used as the separator.
- Adjacent table rows will be automagically combined into a single table.
|Look Mom!|A table!!| |a|b| |c|d|
Socialtext#
Wikispaces#
StikiPad#
Other Wiki Engines#
WikkaWiki#
WikkaWiki table syntax :
:
SdiDesk#
Simple table with double-commas as item separators. Optional column headings if you separate from body with a line containing four underscores.apples,, oranges,, mangos ____ 34,, 434,, 65 63,, 653,, 34 2,, 43,, 43
Other Markup#
Textile#
|a|table|row| |a|table|row|

