| General Features | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.5.1
|
6.0
|
18.5.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
|
| Author |
PukiWiki Development Team
|
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
|
Commercial
|
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
ASP.NET C#
|
Java
|
| Data Storage |
Files
|
Database
|
Database, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
One theme, one PukiWiki
|
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
| Hosting Features | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
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
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
| System Requirements | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Operating System |
OS independent
|
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
IIS
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
| Other Requirements |
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
|
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
|
| Datastorage | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
|
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
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
|
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 |
Patch
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel |
#pukiwiki
|
||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Restricted by Number
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
To current
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi |
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 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Detection
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
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 |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Plugin
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
|
javascript (optional)
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Statistics | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | PukiWiki | ThoughtFarmer | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
PageNameAsWikiName [[PageName]] [[link text>PageName]] |
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://.... [[link text>http://....]] [[interwiki:keyphrase]] [[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
* Level 1 ** Level 2 *** Level 3 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
''bold'' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
'''italic''' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
%%%underlined%%% |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
N/A |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
%%strikethrough%% |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
N/A |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
N/A |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
#ref(pagename/filename[,option]) &ref(pagename/filename[,option]); &ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]); http://foo.bar/foo.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 |
CENTER:center RIGHT:right LEFT:left |
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 |
:term|definition |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
-------------------- |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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