Wikidot vs. ThoughtFarmer vs. XWiki

General Features Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Version
6.0
18.5.0
Last Release Date
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (16 years ago)
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
2026-06-29 (27 days ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
No
Yes
License
AGPLv3
Commercial
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
Intranet, Corporate, Private
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
No
System Requirements Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Text Files
Unknown
No
No
MySQL
Unknown
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
Unknown
No
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
Plugin
Other
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 Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
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
Yes
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Development/Support Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
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
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
CamelCase
No
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
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
HTML Tags
None
All
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
simple + 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
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
javascript (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Output Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
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 Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Calendar
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Yes
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples Wikidot ThoughtFarmer XWiki
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
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://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
wysiwyg rich text editor
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
**bold text**
wysiwyg rich text editor
**bold**
Italics Format
//italic text//
wysiwyg rich text editor
//Italics//
Underline Format
__underlined text__
wysiwyg rich text editor
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
wysiwyg rich text editor
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
wysiwyg rich text editor
--Strike--
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
wysiwyg rich text editor
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
wysiwyg rich text editor
,,subscript,,
Images
[[image src="..."]]
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
= Centered line
wysiwyg rich text editor
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
wysiwyg rich text editor
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
wysiwyg rich text editor
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
wysiwyg rich text editor
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
: item : description
wysiwyg rich text editor
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
wysiwyg rich text editor
----
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