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

General Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Version
6.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
1.32.2
16.3.0
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (10 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-04-29 (1 day ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (9 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (today)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL 2
GPL2+
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
PHP
PHP
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files
Database
Database, RCS
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
All
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Other Requirements
none
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
MySQL
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
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
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
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.
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
Optional
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
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
Common Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
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
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
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Links ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
Plugin
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Optional
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
javascript (optional)
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Usability ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Output ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Filenames only
Keywords
Contents
Extras ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki PmWiki MediaWiki XWiki
Internal Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[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]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
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)
External Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
**bold**
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
//italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//Italics//
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
Images
wysiwyg rich text editor
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[[Image:wiki.png]]
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
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
wysiwyg rich text editor
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
Plugin
: term : definition
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
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