alphawiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ThoughtFarmer

General Features alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Version
v.20160608
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.0
Last Release Date
2016-08-05 (7 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2016-09-10 (7 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
Author
marty alain
Andreas Gohr
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
No
License
GNU-GPL
GPL 2
Commercial
Programming Language
PHP+Javascript
PHP
ASP.NET C#
Data Storage
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
private users, small teams
personal, small to medium companies
Intranet, Corporate, Private
System Requirements alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Operating System
probably every OS
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Root Access
Yes
No
No
Webserver
Apache with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
IIS
Other Requirements
Datastorage alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Other
None
None
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
Security/Anti-Spam alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
No
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Unknown
CAPTCHA
No
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
No
Interface Languages
1
English
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
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
No
Optional
Yes
Comments
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Optional
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
No
Plugin
Unknown
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
No
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Unknown
Plugin
No
Scripting
lambdatalk, lambdalisp,javascript
Optional, PHP
javascript (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
No
Feed Aggregation
No
Yes
Yes
Usability alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Section Editing
Optional
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
No
Plugin
Yes
Output alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Optional
Yes
No
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Yes
SVG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Calendar
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Yes
Blogs
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples alphawiki DokuWiki ThoughtFarmer
Internal Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="?view=pixar"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
wysiwyg rich text editor
External Link
1) standard syntax :
{a {@ href="http://www.pixar.com/"}pixar}
2) alternate wiki form :
[[pixar|http://www.pixar.com/]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
wysiwyg rich text editor
Headlines
1) standard syntax :
{h1 TITLE} from 1 to 6
2) alternate form :
_h1 TITLE (until end of line)
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
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Bold Format
{b I am bold}
**bold**
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Italics Format
{i I am italic}
//italics//
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Underline Format
{u I am underline}
__underlined__
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Monospace Format
{pre I am monospace and preformated}
''monospace''
wysiwyg rich text editor
Strikethrough Format
{del I am line-through}
<del>strikethrough</del>
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Superscript Format
E = mc{sup 2}
<sup>superscript</sup>
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Subscript Format
Vector low indiced : V{sub i} 
Vector high indiced: V{sup i}
Tensor : T{sub i}{sup j}
<sub>subscript</sub>
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Images
1) static image, simple :
{img {@ src="data/image.jpg"}}

2) static image, complete :
{img 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"  
height="200"
title="infotext"
}}

3) click_enlarging image :
{show 
{@ src="data/image.jpg"
height="200" 
width="400" 
title="infotext"
}}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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Aligning Text
{center I am centered}
Plugin
wysiwyg rich text editor
Text Indentation
{p I am an indented paragraph.}
N/A
wysiwyg rich text editor
Bulleted Lists
1) standard :
{ul
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ul item 1
_ul item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
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Numbered Lists
1) standard :
{ol
{li item 1}
{li item 2}
}

2) alternative :
_ol item 1
_ol item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
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Definition Lists
{dl
{dt one} 
{dd definition 1}
{dt two} 
{dd definition 2}
}
Plugin
wysiwyg rich text editor
Horizontal Rule
{hr}
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