ThoughtFarmer vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Version
6.0
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (1 month ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (22 days ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
LGPL
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database
Files
Database
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
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
none
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
No
No
No
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
No
MariaDB
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
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 MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, 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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, 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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
javascript (optional)
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== 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
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
wysiwyg rich text editor
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
; term : definition
;term:definition
Plugin
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
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