| General Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
|
5.2
|
18.0.1
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6.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2019-06-06 (6 years ago)
|
2013-08-13 (12 years ago)
|
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (6 years ago)
|
2013-08-22 (12 years ago)
|
2026-02-04 (18 days ago)
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Atlassian
|
XWiki Development Team
|
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| License |
GPL
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Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
Commercial
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
Java
|
Java
|
ASP.NET C#
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
0
|
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
||
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
|
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache Tomcat
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
IIS
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
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| Other |
No
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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
|
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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 |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
javascript (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Confluence | XWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
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) |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
_italics_ |
//Italics// |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
+underline+ |
__underline__ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{monospace}} |
##monospace## |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-strikethrough- |
--Strike-- |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
^^superscript^^ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
,,subscript,, |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
|
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 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* List ** list *** list |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
|
; term : definition |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| remove MediaWiki | remove Confluence | remove XWiki | remove ThoughtFarmer |