SharePoint Wiki Plus vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki vs. ThoughtFarmer

General Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
Version
Version 13.1.88 (SP2010/2013/2016)
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
6.0
Last Release Date
2017-08-04 (6 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (28 days ago)
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2018-10-11 (5 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (27 days ago)
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
Author
KWizCom Corporation
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
No
License
per server
GPL 2
GPL2+
Commercial
Programming Language
.NET - C#
PHP
PHP
ASP.NET C#
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$3680
0
0
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
SharePoint users who desire enterprise wiki capabilities
personal, small to medium companies
All
Intranet, Corporate, Private
System Requirements SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
Operating System
Windows Server 2003/2008
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Root Access
Yes
No
No
No
Webserver
Microsoft IIS
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
IIS
Other Requirements
SharePoint 2013/2016/2018 - All editions supported
none
Datastorage SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Other
MS SQL Server
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
Security/Anti-Spam SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory/Claims/.NET Authentication provider
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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
Optional
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
nofollow
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Development/Support SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki 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
To current
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Interface Languages
0
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
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
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Links SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
All
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
javascript
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
javascript (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Orphaned Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Output SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
Yes
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
Optional
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples SharePoint Wiki Plus DokuWiki PmWiki ThoughtFarmer
Internal Link
[[SPD]]
[[SharePoint Designer | SPD]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[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://en.wikipedia.org/]
[http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
wysiwyg rich text editor
Bold Format
'''Bold text'''
**bold**
'''bold'''
wysiwyg rich text editor
Italics Format
''Italicized text''
//italics//
''italic''
wysiwyg rich text editor
Underline Format
<u>underlined text</u>
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
wysiwyg rich text editor
Monospace Format
=monospaced text=
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
wysiwyg rich text editor
Strikethrough Format
<s>strike through</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
wysiwyg rich text editor
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
wysiwyg rich text editor
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
wysiwyg rich text editor
Images
[[Image:KWizCom-logo.gif|KWizCom – Knowledge Worker Components]]
{{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
<div align="right">
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
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
wysiwyg rich text editor
Bulleted Lists
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
wysiwyg rich text editor
Numbered Lists
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
wysiwyg rich text editor
Definition Lists
Plugin
: term : definition
wysiwyg rich text editor
Horizontal Rule
---
----
----
wysiwyg rich text editor
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