ThoughtFarmer vs. DokuWiki vs. WikkaWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Version
6.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.4.2
6.1.24
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2020-04-19 (3 years ago)
2023-11-01 (4 months ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2020-04-20 (3 years ago)
2023-11-02 (4 months ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
Andreas Gohr
Wikka Development Team
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL 2
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Intranet, Corporate, Private
personal, small to medium companies
Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any (platform-independent)
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
any server with PHP/MySQL support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
mod_rewrite (optional)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
None
No
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory (patch)
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
42 ⭐
32 ⭐
Common Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, 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
0
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Patch
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
No
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
javascript (optional)
Optional, PHP
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Statistics ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Patch
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Patch
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Patch
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Patch
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
No
Contents
Extras ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Patch
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki WikkaWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
CamelCase
[[forced]]
[[forced|This is a link]]
[[forced |日本語]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://wikkawiki.org
[[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
**bold**
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
//italics//
//italic//
//italics//
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
__underlined__
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
''monospace''
##monospaced##
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<del>strikethrough</del>
++Strike through text++
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
""<sup>Superscript</sup>""
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
""<sub>Subscript</sub>""
vvsubscriptvv
Images
wysiwyg rich text editor
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
Plugin
@@Center text@@
<<left floated<<
>>right floated>>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
wysiwyg rich text editor
N/A
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)
indented
~indented
one
two
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~- Item 1
~~- Item 1.1
~- Item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab)

~1) Item 1
~~1) Item 1.1
~1) Item 2

(more options for lists are available)
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
Plugin
""<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>""
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
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