| General Features | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
N/A
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2025-05-14b "Librarian"
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6.0
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| Last Release Date |
N/A
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2025-09-09 (10 months ago)
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2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
|
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| Last Update here |
2013-02-18 (13 years ago)
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2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
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2026-03-25 (4 months ago)
|
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
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| Author |
Wikia, Inc.
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
Andreas Gohr
|
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
N/A
|
Yes
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Yes
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No
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| License |
N/A
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AGPLv3
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GPL 2
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Commercial
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| Programming Language |
N/A
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PHP
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ASP.NET C#
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| Data Storage |
N/A
|
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$0
|
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
0
|
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
| Development status |
N/A
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Mature
|
Mature
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Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
All users
|
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
| Hosting Features | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Storage Quota |
unlimited
|
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
unlimited
|
no limit
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Other Limits |
none
|
max uploaded file size limit
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N/A
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
hate speech, personal attacks, we believe in kindness
|
by Terms Of Service
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Optional
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Operating System |
N/A
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
|
| Root Access |
N/A
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
N/A
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
IIS
|
|
| Other Requirements |
N/A
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| Datastorage | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Text Files |
N/A
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
N/A
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
N/A
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
N/A
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
N/A
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
N/A
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
N/A
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
| Other |
N/A
|
None
|
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
N/A
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository |
N/A
|
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| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
##wikia on freenode
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
4691 ⭐
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
0
|
2
English, Polish |
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Plugin
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
N/A
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Links | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| CamelCase |
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
None
|
Optional
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Yes
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
Optional, PHP
|
javascript (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| 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
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Optional
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Calendar |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | Wikia | Wikidot | DokuWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Internal Link |
|
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| External Link |
|
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Headlines |
|
+++ headline level 3 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bold Format |
|
**bold text** |
**bold** |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Italics Format |
|
//italic text// |
//italics// |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Underline Format |
|
__underlined text__ |
__underlined__ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Monospace Format |
|
{{monospaced text}} |
''monospace'' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Strikethrough Format |
|
--strikethrough text-- |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Superscript Format |
|
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Subscript Format |
|
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Images |
|
[[image src="..."]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Aligning Text |
|
= Centered line |
Plugin |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Text Indentation |
|
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
N/A |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bulleted Lists |
|
* element 1 * element 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Numbered Lists |
|
# element 1 # element 1 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Definition Lists |
|
: item : description |
Plugin |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Horizontal Rule |
|
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wysiwyg rich text editor |
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