| General Features | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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6.0
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18.5.0
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| Last Release Date |
2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
|
| Author |
Andreas Gohr
|
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
XWiki Development Team
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| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
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| License |
GPL 2
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Commercial
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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ASP.NET C#
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Java
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| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database, RCS
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
personal, small to medium companies
|
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
| Hosting Features | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
IIS
|
Servlet 5.0+
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| Other Requirements |
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
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| Datastorage | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
None
|
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
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| Security/Anti-Spam | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
| Host Blocking |
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Yes
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| Development/Support | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
4691 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
Optional, PHP
|
javascript (optional)
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details. The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax). [[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]] [[Space.Page]] (Space is optional and is the current space if not specified) |
| External Link |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
//italics// |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
__underlined__ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
''monospace'' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
image:img.png image:Space.Page@img.png [[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]] image:http://some/url/img.png Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also: image:icon:cancel |
| Aligning Text |
Plugin |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
N/A |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
Plugin |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
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wysiwyg rich text editor |
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| remove DokuWiki | remove ThoughtFarmer | remove XWiki |