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

General Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Version
6.0
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
16.2.0
1.32.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
Andreas Gohr
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL 2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
PHP
Java
PHP
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database, RCS
Database
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
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
A common browser
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
MySQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
None
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
No
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
Yes
No
Unknown
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
# 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
7039 ⭐
Common Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki 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 XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
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
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
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 XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Scripting
javascript (optional)
Optional, PHP
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
JavaScript
Content Includes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Output ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
No
Extras ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer DokuWiki XWiki MediaWiki TiddlyWiki
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]]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
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]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
! 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//
//Italics//
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
__underlined__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
''monospace''
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<del>strikethrough</del>
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strikethrough--
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}}
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]]
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
Plugin
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
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
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* 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
# 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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