| General Features | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.0
|
N/A
|
18.6.0
|
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
N/A
|
2026-07-27 (3 days ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
|
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
|
2026-07-28 (2 days ago)
|
| Author |
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
Wikia, Inc.
|
XWiki Development Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| License |
Commercial
|
AGPLv3
|
N/A
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
| Programming Language |
ASP.NET C#
|
N/A
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Java
|
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
N/A
|
Database, RCS
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
$0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
N/A
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
All users
|
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
| Hosting Features | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
unlimited
|
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
no limit
|
unlimited
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
max uploaded file size limit
|
none
|
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
by Terms Of Service
|
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| System Requirements | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
N/A
|
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS
|
N/A
|
Servlet 5.0+
|
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
|
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
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| Datastorage | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Unknown
|
N/A
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Unknown
|
N/A
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Unknown
|
N/A
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Unknown
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
N/A
|
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 | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
N/A
|
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Development/Support | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
|||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
2
English, Polish |
0
|
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
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
None
|
Some
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
javascript (optional)
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
Yes
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Statistics | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Media and Files | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Keywords
|
Contents
|
| Extras | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Examples | ThoughtFarmer | Wikidot | Wikia | XWiki |
| Internal Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
|
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 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
|
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
| Headlines |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
+++ headline level 3 |
|
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
| Bold Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
**bold text** |
|
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
//italic text// |
|
//Italics// |
| Underline Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
__underlined text__ |
|
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
{{monospaced text}} |
|
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
--strikethrough text-- |
|
--Strike-- |
| Superscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
^^superscript^^ |
|
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
,,subscript,, |
|
,,subscript,, |
| Images |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[image src="..."]] |
|
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 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
= Centered line |
|
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
| Text Indentation |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
|
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
| Bulleted Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* element 1 * element 2 |
|
* List ** list *** list |
| Numbered Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
# element 1 # element 1 |
|
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
| Definition Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
: item : description |
|
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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