| General Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.45.3
|
N/A
|
6.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2025-12-04 (6 months ago)
|
N/A
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2026-06-03 (7 days ago)
|
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
PBworks
|
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| License |
GPL
|
N/A
|
Commercial
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
N/A
|
ASP.NET C#
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
N/A
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
Determined by Solution Needs
|
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
Business Enterprises
|
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
No limit
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
No limit
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
None
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
N/A
|
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
| Root Access |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
N/A
|
IIS
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
N/A
|
|
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Text Files |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
N/A
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
N/A
|
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 |
1
English |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
N/A
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Javascript
|
javascript (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | PBwiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[http://www.externallink.com] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 !!!!!! Level 6 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
''italics'' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underline__ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
<code>monospace</code> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
-strikethrough- |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
<left>, <center>, <right> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
Indented block |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Bullet #1 * Bullet #2 ** SubBullet #1 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Number #1 # Number #2 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
<dl> </dl> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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