ThoughtFarmer vs. MediaWiki vs. XWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. Confluence vs. TiddlyWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Version
6.0
1.32.2
16.2.0
6.1.25
5.2
5.1.21
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2024-03-24 (1 month ago)
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
2013-08-12 (10 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-03-25 (1 month ago)
2024-04-11 (15 days ago)
2013-08-22 (10 years ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
XWiki Development Team
WackoWiki Team
Atlassian
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
Commercial + Free personal/open source project/community use
BSD
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
PHP
Java
PHP
Java
HTML, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
0
0
starting at US $10 installed (unlimited wikis)
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Intranet, Corporate, Private
End Users/Desktop, Education
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Enterprise + Technical Teams
Individuals, private, small groups
Hosting Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
Optional
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
OS Independent
Windows, Linux and Unix variants
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Any with PHP support
Servlet 3.1+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Apache Tomcat
Not required (optional backends available)
Other Requirements
none
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
mod_rewrite (optional)
Oracle JDK 1.6.0_4+
A common browser
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
No
Optional
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
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
MariaDB
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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 (patch), ActiveDirectory
LDAP, NTLM, Siteminder, CAS and more
optional extensions available
Host Blocking
Patch
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Optional
Unknown
Blacklist
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
No
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Unknown
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
# 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
32 ⭐
N/A
7039 ⭐
Common Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
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 WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
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
20
Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
4
German, English, French, Japanese
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
None
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Links ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
CamelCase
No
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
All
All
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
javascript (optional)
Optional
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
actions (PHP)
Macros, plugins, widgets, JavaScript and more
JavaScript
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Output ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Plugin
Patch
No
Unknown
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
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Extras ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer MediaWiki XWiki WackoWiki Confluence TiddlyWiki
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)
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[Page Title]
[Link Title|Page Title#anchor]
[~username]
[^attachment.doc]
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
External Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[http://example.org The title]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
[http://www.example.com]
[Link Title|http://www.example.com]
[Shortcut Link|PageName@otherwiki]
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
h1. Top Level Heading
h2. Smaller Heading
h6. Smallest Heading
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
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__
+underline+
__underline__
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<tt>monospace</tt>
##monospace##
##monospace##
{{monospace}}
{{{monospaced}}}
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<s>strikethrough</s>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
^superscript^
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
vvsubscriptvv
~subscript~
~~subscript~~
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
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
<center>Centered</center>
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
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
one
two
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* one
** one-two
* two
* three
* 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
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# one
## one-two
# two
# three
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
; term : definition
; term
: definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
; term
: description
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
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