| General Features | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.0
|
5.1.21
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
6.1.25
|
| Last Release Date |
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
|
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
|
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
|
| Author |
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
WackoWiki Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
Commercial
|
BSD
|
GPL
|
BSD
|
| Programming Language |
ASP.NET C#
|
HTML, JavaScript
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
0
|
N/A
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
Individuals, private, small groups
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
|
| System Requirements | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
Any
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
OS Independent
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
IIS
|
Not required (optional backends available)
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
| Other Requirements |
A common browser
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
|
| Datastorage | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
MariaDB
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
optional extensions available
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
7039 ⭐
|
N/A
|
32 ⭐
|
| Common Features | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
4
German, English, French, Japanese |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Flat
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
None
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
complex
|
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
javascript (optional)
|
JavaScript
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
actions (PHP)
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Media and Files | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
No
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Examples | ThoughtFarmer | TiddlyWiki | TWiki | WackoWiki |
| Internal Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
WikiWord (CamelCase) [[link]] [[label|link]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
| External Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
http://www.example.com [[label|http://www.example.com]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
| Headlines |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
! Level 1 !! Level 2 !!! Level 3 !!!! Level 4 !!!!! Level 5 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
== Level 1 == === Level 2 === ==== Level 3 ==== ===== Level 4 ===== ====== Level 5 ====== |
| Bold Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
''bold'' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
//italic// |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
| Underline Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
__underline__ |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
| Monospace Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
{{{monospaced}}} |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
##monospace## |
| Strikethrough Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
--strikethrough-- |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--strikethrough-- |
| Superscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
| Subscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
~~subscript~~ |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
| Images |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
[img[local.jpg]] [img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]] |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
| Aligning Text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}} |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
| Text Indentation |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
:indent > quote <<< blockquote <<< |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
one two |
| Bulleted Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* 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 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
1. numbered List 1. numbered List-2 2.#8 numbered List, with break |
| Definition Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
; term : description |
$ Term: Definition |
{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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