| General Features | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
1.32.2
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6.0
|
|
| Last Release Date |
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
|
|
| Last Update here |
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2009-12-09 (14 years ago)
|
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
|
| Author |
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Michal Frackowiak
|
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
| URL | |||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| License |
GPL
|
AGPLv3
|
Commercial
|
| Programming Language |
PHP
|
ASP.NET C#
|
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
Free / Paid Accounts (starts from $5 per month)
|
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
companies, private users, social groups and communities, software developers, tech geeks
|
Intranet, Corporate, Private
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| Hosting Features | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
1500MB for free users, more for Pro accounts
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
no limit
|
N/A
|
| Other Limits |
N/A
|
max uploaded file size limit
|
N/A
|
| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
by Terms Of Service
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Operating System |
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Any with PHP support
|
IIS
|
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
||
| Datastorage | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Text Files |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Other |
No
|
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Yes
|
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
|
| Host Blocking |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
Plugin
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| # of Consultants | |||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | |||
| Issue Tracker | |||
| Mailing List | |||
| Support Forum | |||
| Chat Channel | |||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 |
2
English, Polish |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| CamelCase |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
None
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
Optional
|
CSS styles, embeddable JavaScript, reporting language
|
javascript (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Keywords
|
No
|
Contents
|
| Extras | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | MediaWiki | Wikidot | ThoughtFarmer |
| Internal Link |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[[page-name]]] or [[[page-name|anchor]]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| External Link |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://www.wikimatrix.org or [http://www.wikimatrix.org WikiMatrix] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Headlines |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
+++ headline level 3 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bold Format |
'''bold''' |
**bold text** |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Italics Format |
''italic'' |
//italic text// |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined text__ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
{{monospaced text}} |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Strikethrough Format |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
--strikethrough text-- |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Images |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
[[image src="..."]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Aligning Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
= Centered line |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Text Indentation |
: indented line |
> First level of indentation >> Second level of indentation. |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bulleted Lists |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* element 1 * element 2 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Numbered Lists |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# element 1 # element 1 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
: item : description |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Horizontal Rule |
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wysiwyg rich text editor |
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