| General Features | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
16.3.0
|
1.32.2
|
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
|
TWiki-6.1.0
|
6.0
|
| Last Release Date |
2024-04-29 (6 days ago)
|
2019-06-05 (4 years ago)
|
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
|
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
|
2013-01-21 (11 years ago)
|
| Last Update here |
2024-04-30 (5 days ago)
|
2019-06-21 (4 years ago)
|
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
|
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
|
2013-01-22 (11 years ago)
|
| Author |
XWiki Development Team
|
Magnus Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller, and others.
|
Andreas Gohr
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
OpenRoad Communications Ltd
|
| URL | |||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| License |
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
|
GPL
|
GPL 2
|
GPL
|
Commercial
|
| Programming Language |
Java
|
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
ASP.NET C#
|
| Data Storage |
Database, RCS
|
Database
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
|
0
|
N/A
|
$119/user (hosted), $10/user (cloud)
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
Mature
|
| Intended Audience |
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
|
End Users/Desktop, Education
|
personal, small to medium companies
|
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
|
Intranet, Corporate, Private
|
| Hosting Features | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| 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 |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Own Domain |
Yes
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Ads allowed |
No
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Operating System |
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
|
*nix, Windows, Mac OS X
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
Windows Server 2008, 2012
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Servlet 3.1+
|
Any with PHP support
|
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
|
IIS
|
| Other Requirements |
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
|
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
||
| Datastorage | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Text Files |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
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
|
None
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2010
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
|
Yes
|
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Active Directory, Open Directory, or Custom Modules
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Mail Encryption |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
| nofollow |
No
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Blacklist |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Delayed Indexing |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Development/Support | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| # 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
|
3582 ⭐
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
| Common Features | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| 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 | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
| Interface Languages |
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 |
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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
11
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Comments |
Threaded
|
Discussion Pages
|
Plugin
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Unknown
|
| Structured Data |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Links | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| SisterWiki |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Features | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| HTML Tags |
All
|
Some
|
Optional
|
All
|
All
|
| Math formulas |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple
|
simple + complex
|
complex
|
| CREOLE support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
|
Optional
|
Optional, PHP
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
javascript (optional)
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Section Editing |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Double-Click Edit |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Auto Signature |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Statistics | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Analysis |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Abbreviations |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Auto-TOC |
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| XML export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Office Export |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Media and Files | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| SVG Editing |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Media Search |
Contents
|
Keywords
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Contents
|
| Extras | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Calendar |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Presentations |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Forums |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blogs |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Ticket System |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
| Syntax Examples | XWiki | MediaWiki | DokuWiki | TWiki | ThoughtFarmer |
| Internal Link |
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]] |
[[a Link]] [[namespace:link]] [[link|With a Title]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| External Link |
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]] http://www.xwiki.com |
[http://example.org The title] |
[[http://example.com]] [[http://example.com|With a Title]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Headlines |
= Headline == Subheadline === Sub-subheadline ==== etc.. |
==Section== ===Subsection=== ====Sub-subsection==== |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bold Format |
**bold** |
'''bold''' |
**bold** |
*bold* |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Italics Format |
//Italics// |
''italic'' |
//italics// |
_italic_ |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Underline Format |
__underline__ |
<u>underlined</u> |
__underlined__ |
<u>underline</u> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Monospace Format |
##monospace## |
<tt>monospace</tt> |
''monospace'' |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Strikethrough Format |
--Strike-- |
<s>strikethrough</s> |
<del>strikethrough</del> |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Superscript Format |
^^superscript^^ |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Subscript Format |
,,subscript,, |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
<sub>subscript</sub> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Images |
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]] |
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}} |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Aligning Text |
(% style="... css here..." %)Text |
<center>Centered</center> |
Plugin |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Text Indentation |
Non-semantic text indentation through styling: (% style="... css here..." %)multi line text Quotes: > This is a quoted text |
: indented line |
N/A |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Bulleted Lists |
* List ** list *** list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.2 * Item 2 |
* item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Numbered Lists |
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 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Definition Lists |
; term : definition |
; term : definition |
Plugin |
$ Term: Definition |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
---- |
---- |
--- |
wysiwyg rich text editor |
| remove XWiki | remove MediaWiki | remove DokuWiki | remove TWiki | remove ThoughtFarmer |