ThoughtFarmer vs. PmWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MojoMojo vs. TWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Version
6.0
2.5.5
1.0.1
6.2.0
1.02
TWiki-6.1.0
Last Release Date
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
2026-01-30 (today)
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
2010-08-30 (15 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (13 years ago)
2026-01-10 (20 days ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
2010-09-01 (15 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Clay Alberty
WackoWiki Team
Marcus Ramberg et al. (open-source)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL2+
BSD
BSD
Artistic License
GPL
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
PHP
C#
PHP
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Data Storage
Database
Files
Database
Database
Database
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
Free
0
FREE
N/A
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Intranet, Corporate, Private
All
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Wiki, CMS, Blog users
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Windows
OS Independent
Any OS that runs Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
IIS 5+
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Has its own server; can run with any web server
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Other Requirements
none
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
mod_rewrite (optional)
Catalyst
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
Unknown
No
Patch
No
SQLite
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
MariaDB
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
.NET Membership platform
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
nofollow
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
54 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
11
Catalan, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian
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
No
Yes
No
Yes
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
No
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Patch
No
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Yes
Links ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
CamelCase
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
No
Yes
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
HTML Tags
All
Plugin
Some
All
Some
All
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
none
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Unknown
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Scripting
javascript (optional)
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
actions (PHP)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Content Includes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Templates
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Optional
No
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Output ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Contents
Extras ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer PmWiki ProntoWiki WackoWiki MojoMojo TWiki
Internal Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[pagename]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
[[another page]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
{title|url}
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Markdown:
[Link text](http://example.com)

Textile:
"link text":http://example.com
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
!, !!, !!!
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Mardown:
#Heading 1

Textile:
h1. Heading 1
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
'''bold'''
**bold**
**bold**
Markdown: **bold**

Textile: *bold*
*bold*
Italics Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
''italic''
''italics''
//italics//
_italics_
_italic_
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
{+underlined+}
__under__
__underline__
Textile: _underline_
Markdown: use HTML
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
@@monospace@@
##monospace##
Markdown:
`command line example`

Textile:
@command line example@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
{-strikethrough-}
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
--strikethrough--
Textile:
normal text -striked- normal text
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
'^superscript^'
<<super>> (using custom tags)
^^superscript^^
Textile: ^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
'_subscript_'
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
vvsubscriptvv
Textile: ~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
wysiwyg rich text editor
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Markdown:
![alt text](/image/path "title text")

Textile:
!http://example.com/image.png!
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
available through custom tags
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Textile:
< right
> left
= center
<> justify
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
wysiwyg rich text editor
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
one
two
Textile:
> text
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
+
++
+++
++++
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
* an item
* another item
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
#
##
###
####
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


# item 1
# item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
: term : definition
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Textile:
dl. title:data goes here
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
----
----
<hr />
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