| General Features | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.0
|
2.5.8
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
1.0.1
|
6.2.1
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
2026-03-09 (7 days ago)
|
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
|
2026-03-16 (today)
|
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
2026-03-09 (7 days ago)
|
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
|
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
|
2026-03-03 (13 days ago)
|
| Author |
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Clay Alberty
|
WackoWiki Team
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Commercial
|
GPL2+
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
ASP.NET C#
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
C#
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
0
|
N/A
|
Free
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
All
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
|
| System Requirements | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Windows
|
OS Independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
IIS 5+
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
|
| Datastorage | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
|
MariaDB
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
.NET Membership platform
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
56 ⭐
|
| Common Features | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
No
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Links | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Plugin
|
All
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
none
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
javascript (optional)
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
actions (PHP)
|
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
|
| Extras | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | ThoughtFarmer | PmWiki | TWiki | ProntoWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[pagename] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
{title|url} |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
!, !!, !!! |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
| Bold Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
''italics'' |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underline</u> |
__under__ |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
@@monospace@@ |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
|
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
{-strikethrough-} |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
<<strike>> (using custom tags) |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<<super>> (using custom tags) |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
'_subscript_' |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<<sub>> (using custom tags) |
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
available through custom tags |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
multiple spaces -> |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
+ ++ +++ ++++ |
*one **One-two *two *three |
| Numbered Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
# ## ### #### |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| Definition Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
: term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
|
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html} |
| Horizontal Rule |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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