ThoughtFarmer vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. PhpWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Version
6.0
1.32.2
25.1, 24.3 LTS, 21.8 LTS
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-02-28 (1 year ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2023-03-24 (1 year ago)
2009-04-03 (14 years ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
LGPL
GPL
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Intranet, Corporate, Private
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
Any
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
none
None
various opt. helpers
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
Yes
RCS
No
No
No
Yes
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
No
MariaDB
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
No
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
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
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
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
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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
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Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Links ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
javascript (optional)
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Usability ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Output ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
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
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
No
Extras ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware PhpWiki
Internal Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
'''bold'''
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
''italic''
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>below</sub>
Images
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
wysiwyg rich text editor
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
; term : definition
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
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