ThoughtFarmer vs. DokuWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. PmWiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
6.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
1.32.2
2.3.33
16.2.0
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 (4 days ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month 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 (3 days ago)
2024-03-25 (30 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)
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL 2
GPL
GPL2+
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Intranet, Corporate, Private
personal, small to medium companies
End Users/Desktop, Education
All
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki 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 platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Any
Root Access
No
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.
Servlet 3.1+
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Optional
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
None
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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.
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
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
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Some
Plugin
All
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
javascript (optional)
Optional, PHP
Optional
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Keywords
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki MediaWiki PmWiki XWiki 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]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
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://...]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
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
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
Bold Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
''bold''
Italics Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
//italic//
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
__underlined__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
''monospace''
<tt>monospace</tt>
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<del>strikethrough</del>
<s>strikethrough</s>
{-strikethrough-}
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
,,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
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
[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
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
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
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: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
* List
** list
*** list
* 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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
Plugin
; term : definition
: term : definition
; term
: definition
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
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