ThoughtFarmer vs. TWiki vs. XWiki vs. TiddlyWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Version
6.0
TWiki-6.1.0
16.3.0
5.1.21
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2024-04-29 (3 days ago)
2019-07-24 (4 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2024-04-30 (2 days ago)
2019-11-20 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
XWiki Development Team
Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki community
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
BSD
GPL
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
Perl, JavaScript
Java
HTML, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Files, RCS
Database, RCS
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Intranet, Corporate, Private
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Individuals, private, small groups
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Any
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Servlet 3.1+
Not required (optional backends available)
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
A common browser
none
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
No
Optional
No
MySQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Oracle
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
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
Data self contained in html file OR as individual data files
No
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
optional extensions available
Yes
Host Blocking
Patch
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
No
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
7039 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
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
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
4
German, English, French, Japanese
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
Unknown
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
None
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
All
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Scripting
javascript (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
JavaScript
Optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Usability ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Statistics ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Output ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
No
Keywords
Extras ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer TWiki XWiki TiddlyWiki MediaWiki
Internal Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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)
WikiWord (CamelCase)
[[link]]
[[label|link]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://www.example.com
[[label|http://www.example.com]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
*bold*
**bold**
''bold''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
_italic_
//Italics//
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<u>underline</u>
__underline__
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
##monospace##
{{{monospaced}}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
--Strike--
--strikethrough--
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
<sub>subscript</sub>
,,subscript,,
~~subscript~~
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
wysiwyg rich text editor
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.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
[img[local.jpg]]
[img[http://foo.bar/foo.jpg]]
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
using custom classes, e.g.
{{right{
text
}}}
<center>Centered</center>
Text Indentation
wysiwyg rich text editor
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
:indent

> quote

<<<
blockquote
<<<
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
$ Term: Definition
; term
: definition
; term
: description
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
---
----
----
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