| General Features | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.0
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1.32.2
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2.11.0
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5.2
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| Last Release Date |
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
|
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
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2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
|
| Author |
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Apache Software Foundation
|
Atlassian
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| License |
Commercial
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GPL
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Apache License 2.0
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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| Programming Language |
ASP.NET C#
|
PHP
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Java
|
Java
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
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0
|
0
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starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
all
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
| Hosting Features | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
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Unlimited
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Operating System |
Windows Server 2008, 2012
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS
|
Any with PHP support
|
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
|
Apache Tomcat
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
|
| Datastorage | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
No
|
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
Yes
|
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
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No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
Freenode: #jspwiki
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| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
|
88 ⭐
|
N/A
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| Common Features | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| 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 | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, 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 |
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| CamelCase |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
javascript (optional)
|
Optional
|
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Statistics | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ThoughtFarmer | MediaWiki | JSPWiki | Confluence |
| Internal Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[link] [text|link] [text|wiki:link] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
| External Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.example.com/] [example|http://www.example.com/] [text|wiki:link] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
| Headlines |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
| Bold Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
'''bold''' |
__bold__ |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
_italics_ |
| Underline Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<u>underlined</u> |
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %% |
+underline+ |
| Monospace Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{monospace}} |
{{monospace}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %% |
-strikethrough- |
| Superscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %% |
^superscript^ |
| Subscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %% |
~subscript~ |
| Images |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}] |
|
| Aligning Text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<center>Centered</center> |
%%(text-align: right) text %% |
|
| Text Indentation |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
: indented line |
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %% %%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %% |
|
| Bulleted Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
| Numbered Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
| Definition Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
; term : definition |
;term:definition |
|
| Horizontal Rule |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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