ThoughtFarmer vs. XWiki vs. MediaWiki vs. Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware vs. DokuWiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Version
6.0
16.2.0
1.32.2
26.2, 24.6 LTS, 21.9 LTS
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
6.1.25
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2024-03-24 (27 days ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
2023-11-15 (5 months ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-11 (9 days ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
2024-03-25 (26 days ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
2024-04-01 (19 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-11 (9 days ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
XWiki Development Team
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
Tiki Software Community Association
Andreas Gohr
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Commercial
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
LGPL
GPL 2
BSD
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Database
Database
Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Intranet, Corporate, Private
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Needing not just a robust wiki, but a full-featured CMS/Groupware with a bug tracker, discussion forums, blogs, etc.
personal, small to medium companies
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS X and probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS Independent
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 3.1+
Any with PHP support
Works on standard shared hosting
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
None
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
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
No
MariaDB
None
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Yes
SAML, OpenID Connect, Active Directory, LDAP, Shibboleth, CAS, IMAP, InterTiki, Vpopmail, Basic HTTP authentication
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Optional
No
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
# 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
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
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 XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, 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
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
35
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
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
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
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Links ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Some
Optional
Optional
All
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Patch
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Scripting
javascript (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Optional
Dynamic Variables more info ===>>
Optional, PHP
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Patch
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Extras ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer XWiki MediaWiki Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware DokuWiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
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)
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
((Name of page))
or
((Name of page|link to a page))
or
(semantic(link to a page))
or, if activated:
CamelCase WikiWords
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[http://example.org The title]
[http://example.com]
or
[http://example.com|label]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
-= Titlebar =-
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
== 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
//Italics//
''italic''
''italic''
//italics//
//italics//
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
===underline===
__underlined__
__underline__
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
##monospace##
<tt>monospace</tt>
-+monospace+-
''monospace''
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
--Strike--
<s>strikethrough</s>
--strike--
<del>strikethrough</del>
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
^^superscript^^
<sup>superscript</sup>
{SUP()}text{SUP}
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
,,subscript,,
<sub>subscript</sub>
{SUB()}text{SUB}
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
wysiwyg rich text editor
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
[[Image:wiki.png]]
{img src=http://foo.bar/foo.jpg}
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
<center>Centered</center>
::centered text::
Plugin
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
wysiwyg rich text editor
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
: indented line
leading spaces, if activated.
N/A
one
two
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
* 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
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
; term
: definition
; term : definition
;term:definition
Plugin
{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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