| General Features | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
5.0.0.1
|
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
|
1.5.11c
|
6.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
|
2005-12-03 (20 years ago)
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2019-02-19 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
|
2006-02-07 (20 years ago)
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
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| Author |
Eduardo Mauro
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Ryan Norton
|
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
| 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 2
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wxWindows Lib/Public Domain
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Commercial
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| Programming Language |
Programming Language Not relevant (completely self-contained)
|
PHP
|
C++
|
ASP.NET C#
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
39,95
|
0
|
NA
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$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Anyone doing research needing a tool with wiki capabilities for data organization and retrieval. Standalone wiki system
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
End users/Desktop
|
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
| System Requirements | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| Operating System |
Windows
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
MS Windows/Mac/Linux
|
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
No need
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
built-in
|
IIS
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
None
|
||
| Datastorage | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
Firebird
|
None
|
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| Page Permissions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
No need
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
unknown
|
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
4693 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Restricted by Number
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Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
5
Danish, German, English, Italian, Portuguese |
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 |
1
English |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
None
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Yes
|
Optional, PHP
|
no
|
javascript (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Statistics | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Output | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| Printer Friendly |
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
No
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ConnectedText | DokuWiki | wxWikiServer | ThoughtFarmer |
| Internal Link |
[[wiki page]] [[wiki page|Title]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
CamelCase [AnotherLink goto alink] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| External Link |
[[$URL:www.connectedtext.com]] [[$URL:www.connectedtext.com|Title]] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://www.powerslave.com [http://www.external.com xternallink] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Headlines |
= Head1 = == Head 2 == === Head 3 ==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
= heading = == heading == === heading === (up to 5 = signs). |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
**bold** |
''' bold text ''' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Italics Format |
//italic// |
//italics// |
'' italic text '' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Underline Format |
__Underline__ |
__underlined__ |
|
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Monospace Format |
{{{Monospace}}} |
''monospace'' |
start line with blank space. |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Strikethrough Format |
--Strikethrough-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
|
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Superscript Format |
^^Superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
|
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Subscript Format |
vvSubscriptvv |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
|
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Images |
[[$IMG:Image.jpeg]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
ilocal://icon.jpg img:icon.jpg img:http://www.external/image.jpg |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Aligning Text |
~~Centered text~~ |
Plugin |
] centred text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Text Indentation |
: First level of indenting :: Second level |
N/A |
> single indent >> two indents >>> more indenting |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bulleted Lists |
* First item * Seconditem |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* one * two * two.1 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Numbered Lists |
1. First item 1. Second item |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1 item one 2 item two Or: # item 1 ## item 1.1 # item two |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Definition Lists |
;Term:Definition |
Plugin |
|
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
|
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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