| General Features | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.0
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2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
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16.3.0
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1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
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2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
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2024-04-29 (5 days ago)
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2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
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2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
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2024-04-30 (4 days ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
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| Author |
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
Andreas Gohr
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XWiki Development Team
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Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Commercial
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GPL 2
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LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
ASP.NET C#
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PHP
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Java
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
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Files
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Database, RCS
|
Database
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| License Cost/ Fee |
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
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0
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Intranet, Corporate, Private
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personal, small to medium companies
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Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| Hosting Features | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Other Limits |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
|
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| Corporate Branding |
N/A
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N/A
|
Yes
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N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
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N/A
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Yes
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N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
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N/A
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No
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N/A
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| System Requirements | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows Server 2008, 2012
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Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
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Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
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No
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No
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No
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| Webserver |
IIS
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Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
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Servlet 3.1+
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Any with PHP support
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| Other Requirements |
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
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none
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| Datastorage | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
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Yes
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No
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No
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| MySQL |
No
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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| PostgreSQL |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| Oracle |
No
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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| SQLite |
No
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No
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No
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Yes
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| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
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No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
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No
|
Plugin
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No
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| Other |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
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None
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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
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No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| ACL |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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| Authentication Backends |
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
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Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
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XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
Yes
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| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
No
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Yes
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| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
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Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
No
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Optional
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| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
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| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
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Optional
|
Yes
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No
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| Development/Support | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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3582 ⭐
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N/A
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N/A
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| Common Features | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Minor Changes |
No
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
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| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
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 |
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 |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Scripting |
javascript (optional)
|
Optional, PHP
|
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Output | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ThoughtFarmer | DokuWiki | XWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a 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) |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
| Bold Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
**bold** |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
//italics// |
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
__underlined__ |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
''monospace'' |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
--Strike-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
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 |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
Plugin |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
N/A |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
- item 1 - item 1.1 - item 2 |
1. Item 1 11. Item 2 111. Item 3 1. Item 4 |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.2 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
Plugin |
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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