| General Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
5.2
|
2.3.33
|
6.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
|
2024-04-20 (14 days ago)
|
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
|
2024-04-21 (13 days ago)
|
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Atlassian
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| License |
GPL
|
GPL 2
|
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
|
GPL2+
|
Commercial
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Java
|
PHP
|
ASP.NET C#
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
|
0
|
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Enterprise + Technical Teams
|
All
|
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Optional
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Apache Tomcat
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
IIS
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
|
none
|
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| Datastorage | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
None
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| # of Consultants | |||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||||
| Issue Tracker | |||||
| Mailing List | |||||
| Support Forum | |||||
| Chat Channel | |||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
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 |
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
Optional, PHP
|
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
javascript (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | Confluence | PmWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[Page Title] [Link Title|Page Title#anchor] [~username] [^attachment.doc] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://www.example.com] [Link Title|http://www.example.com] [Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
h1. Top Level Heading h2. Smaller Heading h6. Smallest Heading |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
*bold* |
'''bold''' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
_italics_ |
''italic'' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined__ |
+underline+ |
{+underlined+} |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
''monospace'' |
{{monospace}} |
@@monospace@@ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
-strikethrough- |
{-strikethrough-} |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^superscript^ |
'^superscript^' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
~subscript~ |
'_subscript_' |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
|
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
Plugin |
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
N/A |
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* one ** one-two * two * three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# one ## one-two # two # three |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
Plugin |
|
: term : definition |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
---- |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| remove MediaWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove Confluence | remove PmWiki | remove ThoughtFarmer |