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| General Features | ThoughtFarmer  | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Version |
 3.6 |
1.17.0 |
4.0 |
3.0.5.600 |
| Last Release Date |
January 13, 2010 |
2011-06-22 |
19th September, 2011 |
2011/07/12 |
| Author |
OpenRoad Communications Ltd |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others. |
Atlassian |
Threeplicate Srl |
| URL |
www.thoughtfarmer.com |
www.mediawiki.org |
www.atlassian.com |
www.screwturn.eu |
| Free and Open Source |
 No |
 Yes |
No |
Yes |
| License |
Commercial |
GPL |
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use |
GNU General Public License v2 |
| Programming Language |
ASP.NET C# |
PHP |
Java |
C#/ASP.NET 3.5 |
| Data Storage |
Database |
Database |
Database |
Files |
| License Cost/ Fee |
$109 per user |
0 |
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis) |
Free |
| Development status |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
Mature |
| Intended Audience |
Intranet, Corporate, Private |
End Users/Desktop, Education |
Enterprise + Technical Teams |
Anyone |
| Hosting Features | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Storage Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | 10 to 100GB+ |
does not apply |
| Bandwidth Quota |
does not apply | does not apply | 100GB/month |
does not apply |
| Other Limits |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply |
| Topic Restrictions |
does not apply | does not apply | No |
does not apply |
| Corporate Branding |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
does not apply |
| Own Domain |
does not apply | does not apply |  Optional |
does not apply |
| Ads allowed |
does not apply | does not apply | Yes |
does not apply |
| System Requirements | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Operating System |
Windows Server 2003, 2008 |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X |
Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix variants |
Microsoft Windows (any NT version) |
| Root Access |
|
No |
No |
Yes |
| Webserver |
IIS |
Any with PHP support |
Apache Tomcat |
Microsoft IIS (5/6/7) |
| Other Requirements |
|
none |
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+ |
ASP.NET 3.5 (.NET 3.5) |
| Datastorage | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Text Files |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
| MySQL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
 Plugin |
| PostgreSQL |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Oracle |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| SQLite |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
| BerkeleyDB |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| RCS |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Other |
Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008 |
No |
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server |
Microsoft SQL Server (Plugin) |
| Security/Anti-Spam | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ACL |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Authentication Backends |
Active Directory or Custom Modules |
Yes |
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more |
Active Directory |
| Host Blocking |
 Patch |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Mail Encryption |
|
Plugin |
Optional |
No |
| nofollow |
|
Optional |
Optional |
No |
| Blacklist |
|
Yes |
No |
No |
| CAPTCHA |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Delayed Indexing |
|
No |
No |
No |
| Development/Support | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Commercial Support |
Yes, 1 listed |
Yes, 63 listed |
Yes, 34 listed |
Yes, 1 listed |
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Code Repository |
|
svn.wikimedia.org |
Source included with commercial license |
bitbucket.org |
| Issue Tracker |
Yes |
bugzilla.wikimedia.org |
jira.atlassian.com |
threeplicate.codebasehq.com |
| Mailing List |
Yes |
lists.wikimedia.org |
www.atlassian.com |
|
| Support Forum |
Yes |
mwusers.com |
answers.atlassian.com |
www.screwturn.eu |
| IRC Channel |
|
www.mediawiki.org |
Jabber MUC at chat.atlassian.com |
|
| Common Features | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Preview |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Minor Changes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
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 |
| Page Index |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plugin System |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Special Features | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Right-to-Left Support |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Interface Languages |
8 languages English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
140 languages 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 |
15 languages Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
25 languages Danish, German, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lettish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Serbian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
Yes |
| Comments |
Flat |
Discussion Pages |
Threaded |
Threaded |
| Categories |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Namespaces |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirection |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking |
Conflict Resolution |
Conflict Resolution |
Page Locking |
| Search |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
Full Text |
| Wiki Farming |
|
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Structured Data |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Links | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| CamelCase |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Freelinks |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Backlinks |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| InterWiki |
No |
Yes |
Optional |
No |
| SisterWiki |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Image Links |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Shares |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Page Redirects |
|
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Syntax Features | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| HTML Tags |
All |
Some |
Optional |
All |
| Math formulas |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
No |
| Tables |
complex |
simple + complex |
simple + complex |
complex |
| CREOLE support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Markdown Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Textile Support |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| BBCode Support |
No |
No |
No |
No |
| Emoticon Images |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Syntax Highlighting |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Footnotes |
No |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Quoting |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Internal Comments |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
| Custom styles |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| FAQ Tags |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Scripting |
javascript (optional) |
Optional |
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more |
|
| Content Includes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Usability | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Section Editing |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Page Templates |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Double-Click Edit |
No |
Optional |
No |
Optional |
| Toolbar |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Access Keys |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Auto Signature |
No |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
| Statistics | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wanted Pages |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Orphaned Pages |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Most/Least Popular |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Recent Visitors |
No |
Plugin |
No |
No |
| Analysis |
Yes |
Optional |
Yes |
No |
| Output | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| HTML |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
HTML 4 |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional |
| CSS Stylesheets |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print CSS |
Print View |
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Themes & Skins |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| RSS Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Abbreviations |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
| Auto-TOC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Raw Export |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| HTML Export |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| XML export |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| PDF Export |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
No |
| Media and Files | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Media Revisions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Embedded Flash |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Embedded Video |
Yes |
Plugin |
Yes |
Yes |
| Image Editing |
Yes |
No |
Plugin |
Yes |
| SVG Editing |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| MindMap Editing |
No |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Media Search |
Contents |
Keywords |
Contents |
Filenames only |
| Extras | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Calendar |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
Plugin |
| Image Galleries |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Plugin |
| Forums |
Yes |
Plugin |
Plugin |
No |
| Blogs |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Ticket System |
No |
No |
Plugin |
No |
| Syntax Examples | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | Confluence | ScrewTurn Wiki |
| Internal Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[PageName] [PageName|Link title] -- or -- [[PageName]] [[PageName|Link title]] |
| External Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[http://www.server.com] [http://www.server.com|Link title] [mail@server.com] -- or -- [[http://www.server.com]] [[http://www.server.com|Link title]] [[mail@server.com]] |
| Headlines |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
==H1== ===H2=== ====H3==== =====H4===== |
| Bold Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
''italic'' |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<u>underlined</u> |
+underline+ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{monospace}} |
{{inline}}
@@block@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-strikethrough- |
--strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
!attached-image.jpg! !Other Page^attached-image.jpg|thumbnail! !http://example.com/external-image.jpg! |
[image|url] [image|url|link] [imageleft/right|url|link] |
| Aligning Text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<center>Centered</center> |
{html}<div align="right">{html} |
|
| Text Indentation |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
: indented line |
|
: Single indentation :: Double indentation ... |
| Bulleted Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Element * Element that spans multiple lines |
| Numbered Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# Element # Element that spans multiple lines |
| Definition Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
; term : definition |
|
|
| Horizontal Rule |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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| Last updated | 2010-01-20 | 2011-06-22 | 2011-09-19 | 2011-07-12 |