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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki software packages.

General information

Creator First public release date Latest stable release Stable release date Predecessor Software license[1] Open source Encoding Multilingual Programming language Data backend
BlueSpice for MediaWiki Hallo Welt! - Medienwerkstatt GmbH March 31, 2011 2.22.1 February 13, 2014[2] MediaWiki GPL v2 Yes UTF-8 Yes PHP MySQL
BrainKeeper BrainKeeper, Inc. September 1, 2005 March 1, 2010 Proprietary No Yes Java/Java EE MySQL
Central Desktop Central Desktop Inc. October 1, 2005 2.0 February 22, 2010 Proprietary No PHP PostgreSQL
codeBeamer Intland Software 2002 6.0 March 27, 2012 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes Java MySQL, Oracle, Apache Derby or Postgres
DokuWiki Andreas Gohr July 2004 2013-12-08[3] December 8, 2013 GPL v2 Yes UTF-8 Yes PHP File system
EditMe Matt Wiseley August 2003 Proprietary No ISO8859-1 No Java MySQL
eXo Platform eXo Platform 4.0 April 2014 LGPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Java PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Apache Derby, HSQLDB
FlexWiki David Ornstein 2.1.0.274 October 20, 2008 CPL Yes ASP.NET, C# File system, Microsoft SQL Server
Foswiki Foswiki community December 2008 1.1.8 March 1, 2013 TWiki GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8 Yes Perl Flat-file, RCS, pluggable storage backend[4]
Gitit John MacFarlane and community November 7, 2008 0.10.3.1[5] Mar 19, 2013 GPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Haskell Git, now also Darcs, Mercurial
IBM Connections IBM June 27, 2007 4.5 CR1 June 26, 2013 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes Java/Java EE DB2, MS SQL Server or Oracle
Ikiwiki Joey Hess et al.[6] April 29, 2006[7] 3.20120725[8][9] July 25, 2012 GNU General Public License v2 +[10] Yes[10] Yes Perl[11] standard version control system[12] such as Git or Subversion or 6+ others[13]
Jive Jive Software January 7, 2007 5.0.3 April 25, 2012 Proprietary No ISO8859-1, UTF-8, ... Yes Java EE/Java SQL/LDAP[14]
JotSpot JotSpot (now Google Sites) October 2004 2.0 July 24, 2006 Proprietary No Java File system, XML
MediaWiki Wikimedia Foundation January 25, 2002 1.22.2 May 29, 2013[15] GPL v2 Yes UTF-8 Yes PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
MetaTeam Altova May 6, 2012 1.0 May 6, 2012 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes Online service
Midgard Wiki Henri Bergius September 29, 2004 10.05.6[16] March 6, 2012 LGPL Yes PHP MySQL and RCS
MindTouch MindTouch Inc. & community July 25, 2006 10.1.0 June 28, 2011 MediaWiki GPL/LGPL, Apache License Yes UTF-8 Yes PHP, C# on Windows or Mono MySQL
MoinMoin Jürgen Hermann; Thomas Waldmann; ... July 28, 2000 1.9.7 March 17, 2013 PikiPiki GPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Python Flat-file
MojoMojo Marcus Ramberg & community August 29, 2007 1.09 January 25, 2013 Yes UTF-8 Yes Perl PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, others
PBworks David Weekly May 30, 2005 TipiWiki Proprietary No UTF-8 PHP MogileFS, Squid, MySQL, Pound, lighttpd
PhpWiki Steve Wainstead, ... December 1999 1.3.14 July 1, 2007 WikiWikiWeb GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8 Yes PHP Berkeley DB, Flat-file, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 8, Firebird
PmWiki Patrick Michaud February 6, 2002 2.2.62 February 28, 2014 GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8 Yes PHP Flat-file. MySQL, SQLite (plug-ins)
Qontext Qontext, Inc November 6, 2010 0.144.1 December 12, 2010 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes Java Amazon Cloud
SamePage eTouch Systems 2005–2007 4.4.0.0.239 Proprietary No Yes Java EE/Java SQL/LDAP
SharePoint Microsoft March 2001 2010 April 22, 2010 3.0 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes ASP.NET, C# Microsoft SQL Server or Windows Internal Database
Socialtext Socialtext 2003 5.0.0 September 28, 2011 N/A Dual (CPAL) and Proprietary) UTF-8 Perl PostgreSQL
Swiki Mark Guzdial; Jochen Rick October 1999 1.5 December 6, 2005 GPL Yes Squeak File system
ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer May 2006 5.5 June 4, 2012 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes ASP.NET, C# Microsoft SQL Server
TiddlyWiki Jeremy Ruston September 2004 2.6.5 October 6, 2011 BSD Yes UTF-8 Yes JavaScript Single file, MySQL (mod)
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Luis Argerich (200+ devs nowadays) October 9, 2002 12.0 LTS November 30, 2013[17] LGPL Yes UTF-8 Yes PHP MySQL
Traction TeamPage Traction Software December 1, 1999 5.2 May 10, 2011 Proprietary No UTF-8, ... Supports multi-lingual content
(and supports i18n)
Java SE/Java Flat File and File System
Oracle 10G RDB option
WebDAV for Attachments
TWiki Peter Thoeny October 1998 6.0.0 October 14, 2013 JosWiki GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8 Yes Perl Flat-file, RCS, pluggable storage backend[4]
UseModWiki Clifford Adams January 22, 2000 1.0.5 August 28, 2009 AtisWiki GPL Yes Perl Flat-file
WackoWiki Roman Ivanov March 2003 5.1.0 June 17, 2012 WakkaWiki BSD Yes Yes PHP MySQL
Wagn Grass Commons April 2006 1.11.2 April 19, 2013 Instiki GPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Ruby MySQL, PostgreSQL
Wiki Server Apple Inc. Proprietary No
Wikispaces Tangient LLC March 18, 2005 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes PHP MySQL, MogileFS
Wikiwig Steve Goldman (Formerly Starcrouz) July 20, 2004 5.01 May 29, 2008 Wikiwig 4.x GPL Yes Yes PHP MySQL
WikiWikiWeb Ward Cunningham 1995 Apple HyperCard Perl
WikkaWiki Wikka Development Team May 16, 2004 1.3.3 May 20, 2012 WakkaWiki GPL Yes ISO8859-1 Yes PHP MySQL
XWiki Ludovic Dubost February 2004 5.4.3 February 12, 2014 TWiki LGPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Java PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Apache Derby, HSQLDB
ZWiki Simon Michael November 5, 1999 0.61.0 October 28, 2008 GPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Python ZODB - Zope Object Database
JAMWiki Ryan Holliday June 6, 2006 1.3.2 May 5, 2013 JAMWiki LGPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Java included own HSQLDB for small sites or for test reason, working with other JDBC compilant database
Creator First public release date Latest stable release Stable release date Predecessor Software license[1] Open source Encoding Multilingual Programming language Data backend

Notes

  1. ^ a b Licenses here are a summary, and are not taken to be complete statements of the licenses. Some packages may use libraries under different licenses.
  2. ^ "Changelog". help.blue-spice.org. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  3. ^ http://download.dokuwiki.org/
  4. ^ a b Foswiki mailing list - Foswiki on Wikipedia
  5. ^ "gitit/CHANGES at master • jgm/gitit". github.com. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  6. ^ "ikiwiki". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012. Ikiwiki is developed by Joey and many contributors. {{cite web}}: External link in |quote= (help)
  7. ^ "roadmap". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012. Released 29 April 2006.
  8. ^ Hess, Joey (25 July 2012). "version 3.20120725". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
  9. ^ "Debian -- Details of source package ikiwiki in sid". Debian. Retrieved 2 July 2012.
  10. ^ a b "Free Software". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
  11. ^ "install". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
  12. ^ "ikiwiki feature "Use a Real RCS"". Ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
  13. ^ "ikiwiki Revision Control Systems". Ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
  14. ^ including: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server
  15. ^ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2013-March/000125.html
  16. ^ Midgard-Project.org
  17. ^ http://info.tiki.org/article224-Tiki-12-0-LTS-is-here

Target audience

Wiki software Public Private Corporate/Enterprise Education Intranet Personal Scientific/Technical/Mathematical
BrainKeeper Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
BlueSpice for MediaWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes support for LaTeX math; syntax highlighting.
Central Desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
codeBeamer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MindTouch Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DokuWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
EditMe Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
eXo Platform Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
FlexWiki Yes Yes Yes
Foswiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LaTeX & math plugins; full HTML, JavaScript support
Gitit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Inbuilt support for LaTeX math; syntax highlighting for code blocks.
IBM Connections Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Jive Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
JotSpot Yes Yes Yes
MediaWiki Yes Yes[1] Yes
Midgard Wiki Yes Yes Yes
MoinMoin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
MojoMojo Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Noösphere Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Latex input
PBworks Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
PhpWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
PmWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Qontext Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SamePage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SharePoint Foundation Yes Yes
SharePoint Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Socialtext Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Swiki Yes Yes Yes
ThoughtFarmer Yes Yes
TiddlyWiki Yes Yes
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Traction TeamPage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
TWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LaTeX & math plugins; full HTML, JavaScript support
UseModWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
WackoWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wagn Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wikispaces Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wikiwig Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
WikkaWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
XWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ZWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
JAMWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wiki software Public Private Corporate/Enterprise Education Intranet Personal Scientific/Technical/Mathematical

Features 1

File uploading / attachments Spam prevention Page access control[1] Inline HTML[2] User-customizable interface[3] Document renaming
BrainKeeper Yes Yes, No Yes Yes, templates and themes, html and css Yes
BlueSpice for MediaWiki Yes Yes, Yes Yes Yes, templates and themes, html and css Yes
Central Desktop Yes Yes, CAPTCHA No Yes Yes, templates and themes, html and css No
codeBeamer Yes No Yes optional Partial - JSP pages + CSS Yes, links don't break

MindTouch

Yes Yes Yes optional Yes Yes
DokuWiki Yes Yes, blacklist Yes, optional Yes, optional Yes, templates, CSS, PHP; heavily documented PHP API Yes, plugin
EditMe Yes Yes, CAPTCHA Yes, Yes, Yes, templates, CSS, [XHTML], [JavaScript] Yes,
eXo Platform Yes No Yes Yes Yes, CSS Yes
FlexWiki Yes Yes, blacklist, CAPTCHA, nofollow Yes Yes, plugin Partial - CSS, templates, WikiTalk Yes, old page becomes a redirect
Foswiki Yes Yes[4] Yes Yes templates, skins, user CSS Yes, fixing backlinks
Gitit Yes Yes, reCAPTCHA Yes Yes, Yes - Templates, CSS Yes, old page becomes a redirect
IBM Connections Yes Yes, Only in private modus No, Not default Yes, Yes - Templates and/or CSS and/or product modification Yes
Jive Yes optional Yes, extensive permissions API Yes Yes No, scheduled for 3.0
JotSpot Yes No Yes Yes, optional Partial - CSS Yes
MediaWiki Yes Yes, URL blacklist, word blacklist, IP address blocking, captchas Partial - very limited read access control Yes Partial - many features are user-customizable, templates Yes, old page becomes a redirect
Midgard Wiki Yes No Yes Yes Partial templates, CSS No
MoinMoin Yes Yes, BadContent filtering via Regular Expressions, Textchas Yes, very flexible ACLs, wiki-editable groups Yes - safe Yes - Themes, templates, CSS, XSLT, user editable navigation Yes, old page can be a redirect
MojoMojo Yes Yes, CAPTCHA Yes, Cascading ACL control allowing stewardship of topics Yes - safe Yes - Themes, CSS Yes, current: page redirect, soon: Node moving
PBworks Yes Yes - passwords, SSO-capable integration, ACLs, IP address whitelisting/blacklisting Yes Yes, and plugins Partial - CSS No
PhpWiki Yes Yes, CPAN Blog::SpamAssassin Yes plugin themes; un-documented Yes
PmWiki Yes Yes[5] Yes Yes, module Yes, themes, per page/per group CSS, ... Yes, module
Qontext Yes Yes, via registration and nofollow Yes No Yes, CSS and templates Yes
SamePage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SharePoint Foundation Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SharePoint Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Socialtext Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Swiki Yes Yes, block IP addresses, words, UserIDs Yes Yes For AniAniWebs, CSS Yes, updating all backlinks
ThoughtFarmer Yes N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes
TiddlyWiki Yes, plugin[6] No No Yes, plugin Yes, themes, user CSS, modules Yes
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Yes Yes, CAPTCHA for registration and anonymous edits or comments, encrypted email addresses.[7] Yes Yes themes, user CSS, modules Yes
Traction TeamPage Yes, with WebDAV versioning Yes, CAPTCHA for registration, block lists Yes Yes Safe Yes, workspace templates, color templates, and developer tools Yes, links are updated automatically and name history maintained
TWiki Yes Yes[4] Yes Yes templates, skins, user CSS Yes, fixing backlinks
UseModWiki Yes Yes, IP address blacklist Yes? Yes? CSS Yes, admins only
WackoWiki Yes Yes, referrer blacklist Yes Yes - configurable/safe themes, style-sheets Yes
Wagn Yes Yes, CAPTCHA Yes, applies to transclusions Yes Yes, layouts, HTML, CSS Yes, fixing backlinks
Wikiwig Yes Yes,Captcha Yes Yes Partial Yes
WikkaWiki Yes Yes, referrer blacklist (module), HTTP REQUEST analysis (module) Yes Yes, configurable/safe Yes, CSS stylesheets Yes, old pages can be redirected
XWiki Yes Yes, Captcha, ACL Yes Yes Yes style-sheets, templates, themes, skin extensions Yes
ZWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes style-sheets, templates, skins Yes
File uploading / attachments Spam prevention Page access control[1] Inline HTML[2] User-customizable interface[3] Document renaming

Features 2

WYSIWYG editing Web feeds Export/Import Extensibility Selectable wiki syntax Wiki farms Outliner Mechanism[8] Other features
BrainKeeper Yes Yes, RSS No No No No Yes [9]
BlueSpice for MediaWiki Yes Yes, RSS Yes, see MediaWiki Yes Yes
Central Desktop Yes Yes, RSS No [10]
codeBeamer Yes with TinyMCE or Microsoft Word No No Yes, Java Plug-ins [11]
MindTouch Yes Yes, RSS, XML, JSON No API, Service Oriented Architecture [12]
DokuWiki Yes, Plugin available Yes, RSS/Atom [2] No, only with xml plugin Yes, Plugin API Yes Yes Yes [13]
EditMe Yes Yes, RSS No Yes, Modules, embedded JavaScript API No [14]
eXo Platform Yes No, activity streams No Yes, UI extension, syntax, custom macros No Yes No templates, drafts, advanced permissions, email notifications, version comparison, permalinks, export to PDF, move page, move across wikis, page hierarchy, page relations, full text search[15]
FlexWiki No Yes, RSS No ASP, WikiTalk, .Net Reflection plugins Forms, Scripting, Integrated Weblog and Threaded Message Forum
Foswiki Yes, pre-installed plugin Yes, RSS/Atom, with search string No 400+ extensions; Plugin API for developers; Foswiki markup/scripting for users to create wiki applications Yes, user selectable wiki syntax with EditSyntaxPlugin [16]
Gitit Yes No Markdown and other lightweight markup languages No Yes Yes Yes Yes
IBM Connections Yes Yes, RSS/Atom No Yes Yes Yes Yes Tagging, Discussions, Notifications (mail or in product), Reports, CMS, Templating
WYSIWYG editing Web feeds Export/Import Extensibility Selectable wiki syntax Wiki farms Outliner Mechanism Other features
Jive Yes Yes No Yes, both functionality and theme via plugins No
JotSpot Yes Yes, RSS, per page No plugins, server-side Javascript [17]
MediaWiki Partial, via extensions Yes, RSS/Atom Yes (web UI, web API, shell) [3] actions, handlers MediaWiki syntax Yes [18]
Midgard Wiki No Yes, RSS, all changes No PHP component architecture CMS integration
MoinMoin Yes, v1.5+ Yes, RSS, last changes No different plugin types Yes, selectable parsers [19]
MojoMojo Yes, With live preview Yes, RSS No Yes, plugins and custom additions types Yes, Multiple markup parsers available [20]
PBworks Yes Yes, RSS/Atom No API, AuthAPI, plugins, wikilets [21]
PhpWiki Yes, module Yes RSS/Atom/RDF: global, per page or per user No plugins Creole support all databases
PmWiki No. GUI buttons and Preview mode exist however[22] Yes RSS/Atom/RDF (option): global, per namespace, per page or per watchlist; feed readers (plugins) No very, 500+ plugins and configuration recipes WikiCreole (option), Markdown (plugin)[23] Yes [24]
Qontext Yes Yes, RSS No No No No [25]
SamePage Yes Yes, RSS feeds, No plugins
SharePoint Foundation Yes Yes, RSS feeds No Yes Themes, WebParts, API Yes (limited) Yes Yes Lists, CMS, Weblog, Tagging, Discussions Notifications, Reports, Workflow, Enterprise level security
SharePoint Server Yes Yes, RSS feeds No Yes Themes, WebParts, API Yes (limited) Yes Yes Forms(InfoPath), Lists, CMS, Weblog, Tagging, Discussions, Notifications, Reports, Enterprise level security, Workflow, Enterprise Search
Socialtext Yes Yes, RSS feeds, Google/Technorati search results No using REST/SOAP APIs [26]
WYSIWYG editing Web feeds Extensibility Selectable wiki syntax Wiki farms Outliner Mechanism Other features
Swiki No Some [27]
ThoughtFarmer Yes Yes No Plugins, API used by ThoughtFarmer Professional Services [28]
TiddlyWiki Yes, with FCKeditor or other plugin Yes, RSS No plugins Creole [29]
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Yes, with FCKeditor or via Quicktag insertion Yes, RSS/Atom/RDF No Hundreds of features, plugins, modules & mods No [30]
Traction TeamPage Yes Yes, Dynamic RSS inbound / outbound No Plug-in architecture for widgets, forms, interface and function modifications [31]
TWiki Yes, pre-installed plugin Yes, RSS/Atom, with search string No 400+ extensions; Plugin API for developers; TWiki markup/scripting for users to create wiki applications Yes, user selectable wiki syntax with EditSyntaxPlugin [32]
UseModWiki No? Yes No extensions
WackoWiki No, Has toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts to create WikiMarkup, see: WikiEdit Yes, RSS No actions, handlers [33]
Wagn (software) Yes, tinyMCE Yes, RSS, JSON No Yes, Modules API [34]
Wikispaces Yes Yes, RSS/Atom No API, widgets, single sign-on (SSO) [35]
Wikiwig Yes, Xinha No No Some
WikkaWiki No Yes, Single page/Comments/Global No Yes, plugins, actions, handlers, menulets [36]
XWiki Yes, using a custom powerful GWT-based editor Yes, RSS No Yes, component, plugins, macros, scripts, applications Yes, based on WikiModel, support syntaxes from other wikis Yes No [37]
ZWiki Yes, using Epoz Yes, RSS/Atom No all Zope plugins, LaTeX, and more [38]
WYSIWYG editing Web feeds Export/Import Extensibility Selectable wiki syntax Wiki farms Outliner Mechanism Other features

Installation

Platform Web-server required Other software required Installable to USB stick
BrainKeeper NA - hosted None NA
BlueSpice for MediaWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others IIS/Apache, Tomcat MySQL, Oracle No
Central Desktop NA - hosted None None
codeBeamer Any OS that supports Java 1.5 and servlet 2.4 Tomcat included, or use your own servlet container. Java 1.5
MindTouch Linux, Unix, Windows & others Apache, IIS6, IIS7, IIS8 Mono, MySQl, PHP
DokuWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Should work on any web server with PHP PHP Yes
eXo Platform Unix, Linux, Hosted Tomcat, JBoss EAP Java 6+
FlexWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others IIS/Apache ASP.Net/Mono
Foswiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Any Web-server with cgi support. Perl, RCS Yes
Gitit Cross platform Yes. Happstack; can also be used locally. LaTeX; Versioning system like Git, Darcs, or Mercurial No
IBM Connections Linux (RHEL & SLES), Unix (AIX), Windows[39] IBM HTTP Server (Apache clone with specific IBM Tuning possibilities) or any other WebServer which can couple with WebSphere. All software required is delivered as a one package solution. No
Platform Web-server required Other software required
Jive Java 1.5 + one of: Windows Server 2003 SP2, Linux (2.6 Kernel), Solaris 10 Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere MS SQL, Postgres, MySQL or Oracle
JotSpot Linux, Unix, Windows & others None (built-in) VMware Player
MediaWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Any web server that supports PHP 5.3+ MySQL, PHP5
Midgard Wiki Linux, Unix & others Apache with PHP MySQL, PHP
MoinMoin Linux, Macs, Unix, Windows & others None for Desktop version Python Yes
MojoMojo Linux, Macs, Unix, Windows, others None - builtin server suitable for desktop or production use SQL database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite)
PhpWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Any Web-server with PHP PHP
PmWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Any Web-server with PHP, can run without a web server. PHP Yes
Qontext SAAS[40] N/A No N/A
SharePoint Foundation Windows Server IIS Optional SQL Server
SharePoint Server Windows Server or SaaS IIS or SaaS Optional SQL Server
Socialtext NA - hosted no, all required components included no, all required components included
Platform Web-server required Other software required
Swiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others None—installs own server. Can coexist with IIS and Apache by running on alternate port None
ThoughtFarmer Windows & others MS-Windows Server 2003 or 2008 MS SQL Server 2005 or 2008
TiddlyWiki Windows & others. None Runs in regular browser Yes
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Linux, Unix, Windows & others Any Web-server with PHP[41] PHP Yes
Traction TeamPage Any OS capable of running Java 2 Virtual Machine None (Built-In) None
TWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Any Web-server with cgi support. Web-server included in VMware appliance and TWiki for MS-Windows Personal Perl, RCS
UseModWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Any web server with cgi support Perl
WackoWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Apache v1.3.x (v2 recommended), IIS MySQL, PHP
Wagn (software) Linux, Unix, Windows & others Any web server with Ruby support MySQL or PostgreSQL, Ruby, git
Wikispaces SaaS - hosted None None
Wikiwig Linux, Unix, Windows & others Any with PHP MySQL, PHP
WikkaWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Any Web-server with PHP MySQL/PHP
XWiki Java Platform Any Java EE webserver Java Yes
ZWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Zope Python (included with most Zope installs)
Platform Web-server required Other software required Installable to USB stick

Note

Atlassian's Confluence is not wiki anymore (from version 4.0) because lacks markup. see https://blogs.atlassian.com/2011/11/why-we-removed-wiki-markup-editor-in-confluence-4/

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Page Access Control: Some wiki engines allow (optional) read/write access restriction to users or user groups on a per-page basis (e.g. through Access control lists).
  2. ^ a b Inline HTML Safe means that several features of HTML are restricted. This is better than Full, for security reasons. Users with complete access to HTML could, for example, create spoof forms to trick users.
  3. ^ a b User-customizable interface: Many items have administrator hand-editable templates. Even items which use hard-coded templates could still be modified if the source is available.
  4. ^ a b IP address blacklist, content by regular expressions, excessive activities, scripted registration prevention (plugin), hidden e-mail addresses
  5. ^ word/URL block (addon, auto-upd. database), URL-approval (option), encrypt e-mails (addon), nofollow, Captcha (addon)
  6. ^ Shulman, Eric. "AttachFilePluginInfo". TiddlyTools. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
  7. ^ Documentation about Spam Protection for Tiki
  8. ^ HTML/XHTML with nested markup, or XOXO with collapsing or folding outlines
  9. ^ Calendars, Discussions, Spreadsheets, Templates
  10. ^ Block architecture, Calendars, Discussions, Database feature, Tasks and Milestones Blocks available
  11. ^ Enterprise level security, Integration with Issue Tracker / Document Manager / Continuous Integration, Open API, Tagging, E-Mail Notifications, Commercial support
  12. ^ Highly usable, stores in XML, SOA, API, enterprise arch and business focused, fully supported by MindTouch company website
  13. ^ Section Editing, XHTML-Compliant, nice tables, side-by-side diff, namespaces, Interwiki
  14. ^ Embedded server-side JavaScript, forums, blogs, security groups and policies, side-by-side diff, auto-generated navigation
  15. ^ wiki app in Platform 4.0 User Guide
  16. ^ Revision control, ACLs for topics, tagging, blogging, calendaring, charting, global search & replace, email notification, form handling and reporting, platform to build wiki applications, graphing, slideshow presentations, 13 translations, plotting, multistyle diffs, advanced searching, spreadsheet calculations, WYSIWYG supports TML, available as a VMware appliance, available as personal memory stick install.
  17. ^ Support for server-side Javascript, VMware virtual appliance
  18. ^ Per-article discussion page, watchlist, searching, email notification
  19. ^ Enterprise level security, authentication, and authorization, Email notification, additional desktop edition, XML-RPC content synchronization, searching in attachments (v1.6+).
  20. ^ Hierarchical node structure and cascading permissions system allows for stewardship of topics. Version control and ability to do 3-way merge on conflict.
  21. ^ SideBars; Discussions; email notifications w/diffs; SSO integration capability; Statistics; PDF output; HTML slideshows; integrated modules for calendars, spreadsheets, audio chat, and more; fully UTF-8 compliant; Tagging.
  22. ^ JavaScript GUI buttons/Edit Toolbar for most frequently used wiki markup codes (customizable).
  23. ^ The PmWiki markup rules are easily modifiable and replaceable by plug-ins, should a need for another wikimarkup family be demonstrated.
  24. ^ Highly sophisticated support for customization. Practically cameleon-like
  25. ^ Enterprise level security, authentication, and authorization, Email notification,Discussions,Tagging,WYSIWYG-like editor,Social tagging,minimal setup, cross-browser support
  26. ^ accessible through REST/SOAP APIs
  27. ^ Installs own webserver (Commanche) and can co-exist with IIS or Apache. AniAniWeb function provides owner control of granular access and creates access groups. Users tracked by email address.
  28. ^ Structured wiki, granular access controls, faceted browsing, revision control, full text search, email notification, photo albums
  29. ^ Single file, minimal setup, cross-browser
  30. ^ ACLs, calendaring, charting, email notification, form handling and reporting, slideshow presentations, spreadsheet calculations and GRAPHS, mobile, GIS (MapServer), JGraphPad for drawings inside wikipages, 3d Browsing, Workspaces, Workflows, OpenOffice WYSIWYG editing of Tiki content, Multitiki installations
  31. ^ Enterprise level security, Multiple workspaces (tens to thousands) on same TeamPage server, Faceted permissioned search crossing workspaces using content or tag navigation, Page and Comment Moderation, Social tagging, Threaded discussion, Paragraph or page level comments, Microblogging with follow model, Extensible Personal Profile Pages, Live blogging, Document versioning and management via WebDAV, Page Name history to support complex refactoring, Mobile browsing / search / navigation / editing, E-Mail Newsletter, Flexible notification model (subscribe to page, comment thread, workspace, author for content or tag changes with email or Jabber notification), Reply to automatically generated email notification message to add comment to thread with automatic cleanup. Built-in usage metrics and interactive graphs, voting and star rating support. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) skin technology. Simple web based admin, Authenticate using LDAP or Active Directory (including LDAP queries for group definition, NTLM support for single signon, Optional Attivio Advanced Search module provides permission aware drill-down content navigation as well as wiki + attached document search, Java SDK (no charge for Java source and documentation), extensible SDL (Skin Definition Language), Fully supported
  32. ^ Revision control, ACLs for topics, tagging, blogging, calendaring, charting, global search & replace, email notification, form handling and reporting, platform to build wiki applications, graphing, slideshow presentations, 13 translations, plotting, multistyle diffs, advanced searching, spreadsheet calculations, WYSIWYG supports TML, available as a VMware appliance
  33. ^ WYSIWYG-like editor, ACLs, subpages, comments, files, email notification, cloning of pages, installation wizard...
  34. ^ dynamic data structuring, pure atomism, in-place editing, set-based rules, true file/image permissions, notifications, discussions
  35. ^ Discussion pages, tagging, email notification, full-text search, user dashboard, localization
  36. ^ FreeMind support, ACLs, cloning of pages, advanced syntax highlighting using GeSHi, on-the-fly downloading of codeblocks
  37. ^ Platform to build wiki applications, Forms and Scripting, Multilingual, Database storage, Fulltext search, GraphViz, SVG, Freemind, Lucene, Charting, photo albums, presentations, blogging, calendar, e-mail plugin, virtual wikis, simple table computations, sortable tables, section editing, portlet integration, integrated statistics, XML-RPC API, Tags, PDF/RTF export
  38. ^ hierarchical pages, revision control, fulltext search, email notification, issue tracker, LaTeX integration
  39. ^ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27012786&S_CMP=rnav Detailed system requirements for IBM Connections
  40. ^ Qontext is a cloud based application Reference site
  41. ^ Tiki Requirements

See also