ThoughtFarmer vs. TiddlyWiki vs. TWiki vs. WackoWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Version
6.0
5.1.21
TWiki-6.1.0
6.1.25
1.32.2
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-11 (8 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years 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 (8 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
WackoWiki Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
BSD
GPL
BSD
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
HTML, JavaScript
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files
Files, RCS
Database
Database
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
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
End Users/Desktop, Education
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Any
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
OS Independent
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
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
Any with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
A common browser
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
mod_rewrite (optional)
none
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
No
Optional
Yes
No
No
Yes
MySQL
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
No
Yes
No
No
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
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
# 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
7039 ⭐
N/A
32 ⭐
N/A
3582 ⭐
Common Features ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Plugin
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 TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
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
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
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
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Links ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Optional
No
Optional
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
complex
complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Patch
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Scripting
javascript (optional)
JavaScript
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
actions (PHP)
Optional
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Output ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Patch
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
No
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Extras ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer TiddlyWiki TWiki WackoWiki MediaWiki DokuWiki
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
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
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]]
[http://example.org The title]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
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 ======
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
====== 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//
_italic_
//italics//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
{{{monospaced}}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
--strikethrough--
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
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%%
<center>Centered</center>
Plugin
Text Indentation
wysiwyg rich text editor
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
one
two
: indented line
N/A
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
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
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


# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
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}
; term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
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