| General Features | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
6.0
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TWiki-6.1.0
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6.1.25
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1.32.2
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| Last Release Date |
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
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2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
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2024-04-11 (1 month ago)
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2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
| Author |
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
WackoWiki Team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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| License |
Commercial
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GPL
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BSD
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
ASP.NET C#
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Perl, JavaScript
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PHP
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
N/A
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0
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Intranet, Corporate, Private
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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
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End Users/Desktop, Education
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| System Requirements | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Operating System |
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
OS Independent
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*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| Webserver |
IIS
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
|
Any with PHP support
|
| Other Requirements |
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| MySQL |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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| RCS |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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| Other |
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
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RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
MariaDB
|
No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Authentication Backends |
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
|
Yes
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| Host Blocking |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| nofollow |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
| Blacklist |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
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| CAPTCHA |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
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| Development/Support | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel | ||||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
|
32 ⭐
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N/A
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| Common Features | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
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 | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Interface Languages |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
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 |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
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| Comments |
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Unknown
|
Optional
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Links | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| CamelCase |
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
All
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Footnotes |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Quoting |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Scripting |
javascript (optional)
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
actions (PHP)
|
Optional
|
| Content Includes |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Templates |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
| Output | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
No
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
Keywords
|
| Extras | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Patch
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | ThoughtFarmer | TWiki | WackoWiki | MediaWiki |
| Internal Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
[[InternalLink]] ((InternalLink)) [[InternalLink alternate text]] CamelCase |
[[a link]] [[a link|with title]] |
| External Link |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
https://wackowiki.org [[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]] [[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]] |
[http://example.org The title] |
| Headlines |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
---+ 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==== |
| Bold Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
*bold* |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
_italic_ |
//italics// |
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<u>underline</u> |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
| Monospace Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
| Strikethrough Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
--strikethrough-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
| Superscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
| Subscript Format |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
vvsubscriptvv |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
| Images |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
((image.png)) file:image.png https://example.com/image.png |
[[Image:wiki.png]] |
| Aligning Text |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
{html}<div align="right">{html}
%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%% |
<center>Centered</center> |
| Text Indentation |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
one two |
: indented line |
| Bulleted Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
*one **One-two *two *three |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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 |
| 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} |
; term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
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