ThoughtFarmer vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. Confluence vs. DokuWiki vs. TWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Version
6.0
1.32.2
16.2.0
5.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (4 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (3 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
Atlassian
Andreas Gohr
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
PHP
Java
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Intranet, Corporate, Private
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Enterprise + Technical Teams
personal, small to medium companies
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Hosting Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Optional
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
Apache Tomcat
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
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
None
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Yes
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Optional
Plugin
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
# 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
N/A
N/A
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
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
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
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, 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
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
javascript (optional)
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
Optional, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Output ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki Confluence DokuWiki TWiki
Internal Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[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)
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
'''bold'''
**bold**
*bold*
**bold**
*bold*
Italics Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
''italic''
//Italics//
_italics_
//italics//
_italic_
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
+underline+
__underlined__
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
''monospace''
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
-strikethrough-
<del>strikethrough</del>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Plugin
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
wysiwyg rich text editor
: indented line
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
N/A
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# one
## one-two
# two
# three
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
; term : definition
; term
: definition
Plugin
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
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