| General Features | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.0
|
0.11.5
|
5.2
|
2.1.8
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
|
2009-02-16 (15 years ago)
|
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
|
2023-08-05 (8 months ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
|
2009-09-04 (14 years ago)
|
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
|
2023-10-16 (6 months ago)
|
| Author |
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
Edgewall Software
|
Atlassian
|
Foswiki Community
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
Commercial
|
Modified BSD license
|
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
GPL
|
| Programming Language |
ASP.NET C#
|
Python
|
Java
|
Perl
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
$0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Beta
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
Software development teams
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
|
| Hosting Features | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Operating System |
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS
|
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
|
Apache Tomcat
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
|
| Other Requirements |
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
|
| Datastorage | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Other |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
0
|
caching of content into database using plugins
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Development/Support | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
97 ⭐
|
| Common Features | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
No
|
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 | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
141
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, Javanese, 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
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Detection
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
javascript (optional)
|
yes, using Python
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | ThoughtFarmer | TracWiki | Confluence | Foswiki |
| Internal Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
CamelCase [wiki:ISO9000] [wiki:TitleIndex Title Index] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
| External Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
External Link http://foswiki.org/ autolink [[http://foswiki.org/][label]] |
| Headlines |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
= Level 1 = == Level 2 == === Level 3 === === Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
| Bold Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
*bold* |
| Italics Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
''italic'' |
_italics_ |
_italic_ |
| Underline Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
__underline__ |
+underline+ |
<u>underline</u> |
| Monospace Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace` |
{{monospace}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
| Strikethrough Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
~~strike-through~~ |
-strikethrough- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
| Superscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
^superscript^ |
^superscript^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
,,subscript,, |
~subscript~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[Image(photo.jpg)]] # simplest [[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]] # with size [[Image(photo.jpg, right)]] # aligned by keyword [[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]] # without link |
|
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}% |
| Aligning Text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
|
|
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
| Text Indentation |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
|
|
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
| Bulleted Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 1 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
1. Item 1 1. Item 1.1 1. Item 1 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
term:: definition |
|
$ Term: Definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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| remove ThoughtFarmer | remove TracWiki | remove Confluence | remove Foswiki |