ThoughtFarmer vs. XWiki vs. PmWiki vs. TWiki vs. MediaWiki

General Features ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Version
6.0
16.3.0
2.3.33
TWiki-6.1.0
1.32.2
Last Release Date
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
2024-04-29 (7 days ago)
2024-04-20 (16 days ago)
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
2024-04-30 (6 days ago)
2024-04-21 (15 days ago)
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
Author
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
XWiki Development Team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Peter Thoeny, TWiki 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
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
ASP.NET C#
Java
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
0
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Intranet, Corporate, Private
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
All
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki 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
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
N/A
System Requirements ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Operating System
Windows Server 2008, 2012
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
IIS
Servlet 3.1+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any with PHP support
Other Requirements
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
none
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
none
Datastorage ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Text Files
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
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
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Yes
Host Blocking
Patch
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Unknown
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki 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
N/A
N/A
Common Features ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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 XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
No
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
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, 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
Optional
Yes
Optional
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Links ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
No
Freelinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Optional
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
javascript (optional)
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Optional
Content Includes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Output ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Editing
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Filenames only
Contents
Keywords
Extras ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
No
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ThoughtFarmer XWiki PmWiki TWiki MediaWiki
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)
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[a link]]
[[a link|with title]]
External Link
wysiwyg rich text editor
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.org The title]
Headlines
wysiwyg rich text editor
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
==Section==
===Subsection===
====Sub-subsection====
Bold Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
//Italics//
''italic''
_italic_
''italic''
Underline Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
__underline__
{+underlined+}
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
##monospace##
@@monospace@@
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
Strikethrough Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
--Strike--
{-strikethrough-}
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<s>strikethrough</s>
Superscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
^^superscript^^
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
wysiwyg rich text editor
,,subscript,,
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[[Image:wiki.png]]
Aligning Text
wysiwyg rich text editor
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<center>Centered</center>
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 text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
: indented line
Bulleted Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
* List
** list
*** list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.2
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.2
# Item 2
Definition Lists
wysiwyg rich text editor
; term
: definition
: term : definition
$ Term: Definition
; term : definition
Horizontal Rule
wysiwyg rich text editor
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----
---
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