| General Features | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.0
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
1.32.2
|
2.3.33
|
5.1.21
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2024-04-20 (14 days ago)
|
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2024-04-21 (13 days ago)
|
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Commercial
|
GPL 2
|
GPL
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GPL2+
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
ASP.NET C#
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Database
|
Files
|
Files
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
All
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
| System Requirements | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
| Other Requirements |
none
|
none
|
A common browser
|
||
| Datastorage | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Other |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
None
|
No
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
optional extensions available
|
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| # 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
|
7039 ⭐
|
| Common Features | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| 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 | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
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 |
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 |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
None
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Features | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Scripting |
javascript (optional)
|
Optional, PHP
|
Optional
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
JavaScript
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Statistics | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
No
|
| Extras | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | MediaWiki | PmWiki | TiddlyWiki |
| Internal Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
| External Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
| Headlines |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
| Bold Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
'''bold''' |
''bold'' |
| Italics Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
''italic'' |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
__underlined__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
''monospace'' |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
@@monospace@@ |
{{{monospaced}}} |
| Strikethrough Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
{-strikethrough-} |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
~~subscript~~ |
| Images |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
| Aligning Text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
Plugin |
<center>Centered</center> |
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
| Text Indentation |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
N/A |
: indented line |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
| Bulleted Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
Plugin |
; term : definition |
: term : definition |
; term : description |
| Horizontal Rule |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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