Wikidot vs. MediaWiki vs. UseMod vs. ThoughtFarmer

General Features Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Version
1.32.2
1.0
6.0
Last Release Date
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2003-09-11 (20 years ago)
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2009-07-01 (14 years ago)
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
Author
Michal Frackowiak
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Clifford Adams
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
License
AGPLv3
GPL
GPL
Commercial
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
ASP.NET C#
Data Storage
Database
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
0
0
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
End Users/Desktop, Education
Intranet, Corporate, Private
Hosting Features Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Storage Quota
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
no limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
max uploaded file size limit
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
by Terms Of Service
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Operating System
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Any with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
IIS
Other Requirements
none
Datastorage Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Text Files
Unknown
No
Yes
No
MySQL
Unknown
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Unknown
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Unknown
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
No
No
No
RCS
Unknown
No
No
No
Other
No
No
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
Security/Anti-Spam Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Yes
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Host Blocking
Yes
Yes
Yes
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Optional
Patch
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Patch
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
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
Common Features Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod 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
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
2
English, Polish
140
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
0
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Links Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
No
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Features Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
HTML Tags
None
Some
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Quoting
Yes
No
No
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
No
Scripting
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
Optional
None
javascript (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
No
Statistics Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Output Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
No
HTML Export
No
Yes
No
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
No
Contents
Extras Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Wikidot MediaWiki UseMod ThoughtFarmer
Internal Link
[[[page-name]]] or
[[[page-name|anchor]]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
wysiwyg rich text editor
External Link
http://www.wikimatrix.org or 
[http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix]
[http://example.org The title]
wysiwyg rich text editor
Headlines
+++ headline level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
wysiwyg rich text editor
Bold Format
**bold text**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
wysiwyg rich text editor
Italics Format
//italic text//
''italic''
''italic''
wysiwyg rich text editor
Underline Format
__underlined text__
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
wysiwyg rich text editor
Monospace Format
{{monospaced text}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
wysiwyg rich text editor
Strikethrough Format
--strikethrough text--
<s>strikethrough</s>
N/A
wysiwyg rich text editor
Superscript Format
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
wysiwyg rich text editor
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
wysiwyg rich text editor
Images
[[image src="..."]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
http://url.com/pic.gif
wysiwyg rich text editor
Aligning Text
= Centered line
<center>Centered</center>
N/A
wysiwyg rich text editor
Text Indentation
> First level of indentation
>> Second level of indentation.
: indented line
: indented
wysiwyg rich text editor
Bulleted Lists
* element 1
* element 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
wysiwyg rich text editor
Numbered Lists
# element 1
# element 1
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
wysiwyg rich text editor
Definition Lists
: item : description
; term : definition
;Term:Definition
wysiwyg rich text editor
Horizontal Rule
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wysiwyg rich text editor
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