ThoughtFarmer vs. PukiWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Version
6.0
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Intranet, Corporate, Private
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
No
No
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Patch
Patch
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Unknown
Patch
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Change Summary
No
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Interface Languages
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
No
Structured Data
Yes
No
Links ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Unknown
No
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Quoting
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
javascript (optional)
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Usability ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Patch
Page Templates
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
No
Access Keys
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Statistics ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
No
Plugin
HTML Export
No
No
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer PukiWiki
Internal Link 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
''bold''
Italics Format 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
'''italic'''
Underline Format 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
N/A
Strikethrough Format 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
N/A
Subscript Format 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
N/A
Images 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
N/A
Bulleted Lists 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule 
wysiwyg rich text editor
 
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