Comparison of wiki hosting services

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A wiki farm is a server or an array of servers that offer users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis.

Prior to wiki farms, the administrator of multiple wikis had to install each wiki independently. Deployment of redundant code and configurations on the server wasted administrative time and server storage. With a wiki farm the administrator installs the core wiki code once and establishes unique space on the server(s) for the content of each individual wiki with the shared core code executing the functions of each wiki. The wiki farm approach has fostered the development of publicly-available wiki hosting services which relieve users of the need to install a wiki server, configure it, connect it to the Internet and maintain it. This has greatly increased the availability of wiki technology for users who want to share information on-line through their own wiki.

Both non-commercial and commercial wiki farms are available for users and online communities. While most of the wiki farms allow anyone to open their own wiki, some impose restrictions. Many wiki farm companies generate revenue through the insertion of advertisements, but often allow payment of a monthly fee as an alternative to accepting ads.

A server running a single wiki instance with groups of pages dedicated for specific topics is not a wiki farm.

General

The following tables compare general information for several wiki farms; however, more than 100 wiki farms have been created.[1] Further information can be found at the websites themselves, or in the linked article for some of the more notable ones. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date. It does not review or endorse any wiki farm, nor does it include any advertising hyperbole. The Alexa traffic rankings are not accurate for those wiki farms that allow some of their hosted wikis to have separate domain names. In those cases there may be some additional Alexa rankings listed below for some of the larger individual wikis in a wiki farm. The wikis are normally provided with a standard layout, or a choice of layouts, usually known as skins. Some wiki farms allow the layout to be customised using cascading style sheets (css).

Wiki farm Alexa rank as of October 2009 (lower = higher traffic)[2] Cost? Ad? Content license
@wiki 108,705 [3] (October 7, 2009) Free Yes
BrainKeeper 1,301,377 [4] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree ?
BusinessWiki 554,660 [5] (October 7, 2009) Free (3 users) / Paid (14 days trial) No GPL
Central Desktop 13,313 [6] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree ?
ClearWiki 486,862 [7] (October 7, 2009) Free/Paid ?
Confluence Hosted 12,658 [8] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree[9] ?
CustomerVision BizWiki 5,357,869 [10] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree ?
EditMe 111,014 [11] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree ?
EditThis.info 149,846 [12] (October 7, 2009) Free Yes
eTouch SamePage 763,196 [13] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree ?
GROU.PS SuperWiki 5,424 [14] (October 7, 2009) Free No Any
HelpingStudents.org 4,082,756 [15] (October 7, 2009) Free/paid ? Creative Commons[16]
Hive Wiki 12,465,546 [17] (October 7, 2009) Free ?
HOAwiki 7,869,997 [18] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree No Users Choice
Intodit 319,025 [19] (October 7, 2009) Free AS
MyFreeWiki (en, fr) 2,154,445 [20] (October 7, 2009) Free No User Choice
Netcipia 254,670 [21] (October 7, 2009) Free[22] No
nexdo (formerly Partnertext) 6,655,635 [23] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree ?
Oddwiki 463,149 [24] (October 7, 2009) Free ?
OpenTeams 874,029 [25] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree[26] ?
Ourproject.org 336,594 [27] (October 7, 2009) Free No Copyleft (choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses)
PAUX 1,548,983 [28] (October 7, 2009) Free/paid ? Copyleft license
PBworks 2,605 [29] (October 7, 2009) Free/paid No
PicoWiki 1,027,447 [30] (October 7, 2009) Free/donationware - for personal wikis optimized for iPhone and smartphones No user choice
ProjectForum 979,009 [31] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree ?
ProjectLocker 163,350 [32] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree ?
Referata 348,887 [33] (October 7, 2009) Free/paid No User choice (via site settings), default is Creative Commons by-sa[34]
Russian wiki community 1,328,964 [35] (October 7, 2009) negotiable ? negotiable
SeedWiki 350,379 [36] (October 7, 2009) Free/paid No Closing as a free site Sept. 1, 2009
SnoutHold Cospire 6,134,457 [37] (October 7, 2009) Free ?
Socialtext Workspace Hosted 47,176 [38] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree[39] No Wiki creators can set their own.
Swirrl 927,404 [40] (October 7, 2009) Non-free Nonfree No [41]
Wetpaint 1,894 [42] (October 7, 2009) Free/Paid AS Creative Commons
Wik.is 91,967 [43] (October 7, 2009) Free/paid ?
Wikia 236 [44] (October 7, 2009) Free Yes Creative Commons
Wikidot 3,687 [45] (October 7, 2009) Free/paid Yes/No By default Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses as requested
Wikihost.org 610,044 [46] (October 7, 2009) Free Yes By default Creative Commons, others as needed
Wiki-site.com 150,072 [47] (October 7, 2009) Free/paid AS Wiki creators can set their own
Wikispaces 3,443 [48] (October 7, 2009) Free/paid Yes/No Choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses
Wiki Spot 150,839 [49] (October 7, 2009), 82,489 [50] (October 7, 2009) Free[51] No User choice, default Creative Commons Attribution
WikiZones.com 392,588 [52] (October 7, 2009) Free No
Wikkii 1,549,235 [53] (October 7, 2009) Free Yes
WikyBlog.com 266,842 [54] (October 7, 2009) Free ? Any, integrated Creative Commons licenses
XWiki 371,193 [55] (October 7, 2009) Free/paid No Any
YourWiki 551,900 [56] (October 7, 2009) Free AS User choice
Wiki farm Alexa. Approximative rank according to Alexa Internet. Click on the rank to get the last figures. Cost? Ad? Content license

Technical

Wiki farm WYSIWYG editing Features Base wiki engine Multilingual support Syntax support
@wiki Yes Selectable edit-mode (WikiText or WYSIWYG or text), access control, file uploads, importing, full-text search, and RSS abilities. [?] (custom) English, Chinese, Korean and others Some HTML,[1]
JavaScript,
Math formulas
BrainKeeper Yes Access control, full-text search, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, RSS enabled. [?] (custom) Some HTML,[1]
no script
No formulas
BusinessWiki Yes Visual editing, Folders and tags, Easy PDF document creating, Backups mechanisms, Multiple feeds allowing to track information and notify about changes (RSS, mail, mobile web), Comprehensive user guide, Compatibility with MediaWIki (database standard, wiki-text) and Open-source version for your safety. Each site gets a subdomain on .onbusinesswiki.com. MediaWiki English WikiText, HTML
Central Desktop Yes Access control, full-text search, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, RSS enabled. [?] (custom) HTML,[1]
CSS/templating
No formulas
ClearWiki Yes Private secure wikis (with sub-domains) - each wiki has own physical database. File storage, version control, full text search (incl docs/files), to-do lists, RSS enabled, blogs, discussions, image galleries (with thumbnailing), meta-tagging (labelling), content starring, teams/groups. [?] (custom) English only Some HTML,[1]
WYSIWYG edit
Confluence Hosted Yes Wiki markup language, plugins, SSL, file storage, permissioning, WebDAV. HTML plugin
script plugin
No formulas
CustomerVision BizWiki Yes Access control, page templates, domain mapping, solution templates include Sales Support, and Learning Support. [?] (custom)
EditMe Subscription-based, SSL Encryption, and Custom Domain Support. Java-based (custom) All HTML,[1]
JavaScript,
No formulas
EditThis.info ? Unlimited pages and users (but no longer upload of photos[57]), wiki spam protection, 25MB of file upload space, and RSS feeds. Apparently allows free wikis to profit from Google AdSense.[58] MediaWiki 1.5.5 Some HTML,[1]
JavaScript,
No formulas
eTouch SamePage Yes Project management, permissioning, administration and support for multiple domains. eTouch CMS (custom, powered by)
GROU.PS SuperWiki Yes Secure SSL encrypted login, Advanced Privacy and Moderation Settings, Revisions, Real-Time Chat (optional), RSS & Email Alerts for your group members, Categories (Subfolders), Wiki Comments (optional), Multilingual; all texts customizable, Unlimited file upload space, Domain masking, Customizable templates. [?] (custom) English, French, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, Swedish and extensible All HTML
HelpingStudents.org Yes Java server pages, scripts and plugin wiki options for school administrators and teachers that provide parental information resources WikiText and HTML editing, metasearch, factoring, permissioning, SSL Encryption, Private Intranet implementation with public integration administration and support. JSPWiki
Hive Wiki ? WikiText and HTML editing, metasearch, factoring, permissioning, administration and support for multiple domains and publicly creatable subdomains .NET-based (custom)
HOAwiki Yes Hosted and supported TikiWiki CMS/groupware.[59] TikiWiki CMS/groupware 2.2 (last stable) Multilingual to 30 languages HTML, Smarty code, javascript
Intodit Yes WYSIWYG editing only, custom page hierarchies, Comment and Reply forums, group rating, layout templates, keyword search, tags, skins, RSS, profiles, activity report, No changes preview. Supported browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari. [?] (custom) No HTML,[1]
Unknown script
No formulas
MyFreeWiki Yes Easy and Fast, plaintext editors available. Integrated photo gallery. Enzym (custom) English and French All HTML, Javascript
Netcipia Yes Blog, public and private wiki, 2GB per wiki created, no time limit, right management XWiki English only All HTML,
JavaScript,
No math
nexdo (formerly Partnertext) Yes WYSIWYG HTML editing [?] (custom) All HTML,[1]
unknown script
No formulas
Oddwiki ? Oddmuse
OpenTeams Yes 3-pane drag-and-drop Ajax-based interface similar to email and newsfeed readers, private secure wiki spaces (including invitation-only and a domain security option based on validated email domains, i.e. "Everybody with email@domain.com"), tags, blog, bliki, "What's New" views, draft autosaving, discussion, attachments with version history, SSL, unlimited spaces, pages, edits, versions, storage, and bandwidth. [?] (custom)
Ourproject.org Yes It offers freely a wide collection of services for multi-purpose free/libre projects (not only free software: free knowledge), including wikis, mailing lists, forums, FTP, subdomains, hosting, ddbb, email alias, backups, CVS/SVN, Task management... MoinMoin Supports English, Spanish, French, and many other languages.
PAUX Password-protected wikis on .dreusicke-verlag.de. No page limits, SSL, picture gallery included. [?] (custom) Some HTML,[1]
unknown script
Math formulas
PBworks Private or public wikis on .pbworks.com subdomain (higher-level paid plans allow use of a custom domain). No page limits, SSL, RSS & Atom, ZIP backups, diffs, colour schemes, email notifications, file management, page access settings. Over 800,000 workspaces hosted. One level of folders used to organize pages. Folder- and page-level access controls available to paying customers and business users. Free accounts limited to 2 GB, paying accounts get up to unlimited storage. [?] (custom) All HTML,[1]
JavaScript,
LaTeX formulas
ProjectForum [?] (custom) Optional HTML,
unknown script
No formulas[1]
ProjectLocker Focused on providing software development tools as a service. Wiki features include Unlimited document storage, Custom access profiles for partners, customers, and managers, Support for attachments on documents, Privacy Commitment - Your Data is Yours Alone, Secure access via SSL, RAID 1 redundant storage of all data, Nightly backups, 24/7 Server Monitoring [?] (custom)
Referata No A semantic wiki hosting site. Uses MediaWiki, along with Semantic MediaWiki and related extensions, to enable wikis to serve as collaborative databases, with custom forms, result tables, calendars, maps, etc. Free wikis are limited to 5 MB of uploaded file storage; there is no limit on the size of the wiki text. Every wiki gets a subdomain of referata.com, although some paid service levels also allow for custom domains.[60] MediaWiki 1.15 Dozens of languages, although help pages are mostly in English Standard MediaWiki scripting, math formulas
Riters.com Line document collaboration service and Wiki farm MoinMoin
Russian wiki community negotiable MediaWiki 1.5.8 UTF-8/Russian Some HTML,[1]
JavaScript,
Math formulas
SeedWiki Yes cross-platform WYSIWYG editing, stylesheets, subdomains.seedwiki.com, wiki-mode, subscriptions; paid option for having one's own domain that the wiki-owner can tag on to his wiki [?] (custom) All HTML,[1]
JavaScript and Seedwiki widgets
Plugin formulas
SnoutHold Cospire Yes Permissions, public/private security models, ratings, feedback mechanisms, search engine, category organizer, profiles [?] (custom)
Socialtext Workspace Yes Enterprise Wiki. Supports text, rich text, embedded images, video, and attachments (including from email). Derived from Kwiki
Swirrl Yes Text pages, data sets (with spreadsheet-like user interface), permissions, public/private pages, versioning, searching, tags Custom Enter content in many languages, user interface in English
ViaWiki Yes Free version is ad-supported, paid version has option of using own domain, attach files, no limit on number of pages and backups, max 5GB (paid version)[61] Deki Wiki
Wetpaint Yes WYSIWYG editing only, custom page hierarchies, Comment and Reply forums with comment ratings, access control, keyword search, tags, tag filtering, skins, RSS, page locking, profiles, site activity report, page and comment watching. No page permission settings. No changes preview. Supported browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox. Java-based (custom) No HTML,[1]
Unknown script
No formulas
Wik.is Yes Access control, full-text search (including file attachments), document management, light project management, database, project templates, RSS enabled, stores in XML, Deki Wiki a full featured engine (a MediaWiki fork). Free account 50 MB. Paid account ($99/yr) 1 GB. Deki Wiki
Wikia Yes Wiki hosting service created in 2004, formerly known as Wikicities. All wikis have common login and preferences. Single sign-on to multiple projects. Database download available. No means to close an inactive wiki, even if the community has moved elsewhere. Wikia domains, names, and identifiers owned by Wikia Inc, not the respective communities; in a recent change of policies, all communities are being migrated to .wikia.com subdomains. Will configure Semantic MediaWiki on request.[62] MediaWiki 1.15.1 All languages Wikipedia exists for (and some more); Community Support in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese. Some HTML,[1]
JavaScript,
Math formulas
Wikidot Each site gets a subdomain on .wikidot.com (like mywiki.wikidot.com). Also there is possibility to map a custom domain (like mywiki.com -- if previously registered by the wiki owner) for free. One can optionally allow Wikidot to display ads on their wiki and get 80% of revenue. RSS import/export, private RSS feeds for Users (notifications and watched items), RSS for page changes and forum, customizable themes (every item can be styled with CSS), advanced forum for each Site. Custom page hierarchies, searching, advanced page (full/section/append) edit locking, blocking users and IP addresses. Private messages between users. Uses Ajax for clean and fast (no browser page-reload) interface. SEO-friendly. No limits on site size. Public and private wikis. Lots of widgets, that allow to embed a video from YouTube, GoogleVideo, photos from Flickr, chats from Meebo and many more). Each user can create up to 20 wiki sites and be a member of an unlimited number of wikis. Modified Text_Wiki engine English, Polish, Russian and Community support in French, German, ... more to come. No HTML,[1]
CSS styling
LaTeX math formulas
Wikihost.org 100 MB space, File and Image upload, User authentication, Private wikis, Subdomains for wikis larger than 30 pages, RSS, Edit locking, Fulltext search, Email notifications, Complete wiki export, Unlimited pages, Unlimited Revisions, Diff function, Revert of old revisions GeboGebo
Wiki-site.com Yes Wiki farm with unlimited pages and users, wiki spam protection, user rights control for paid accounts. Interface in 150 languages. A free *.wiki-site.com domain is offered. Google text-ads added to the right sidebar for free accounts. MediaWiki 1.11.0 English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and over 70 other languages. Some HTML,[1]
JavaScript,
Math formulas
Wikispaces Yes Clean easy to use interface, users get a subdomain on wikispaces.com. Free version supported by Google ads - Wikispaces ads can be turned off for a fee. No limits on numbers of pages, spaces, or members. Full RSS support; easy space backups in zip and tgz. Blog import function/ integration with Blogger.com and Typepad. Themes and stylesheets can be customized. Private label service available. [?] (custom) Optional HTML,[1]
Unknown script
Math formulas
Wiki Spot No advertising, user accounts work on all wikis, use bookmarks and track changes across multiple wikis. Customizable CSS by wiki and user CSS. Simple, intuitive syntax. No limits on pages/disk space. RSS feeds available on all pages. Easy to create a wiki and configure settings. Sycamore
Wikkii.com Features complete back-end control with full FTP and Cpanel access. Initially 1GB storage and 10GB bandwidth. Install any wiki script. Add unlimited custom templates, add-ons, and plugins. Free domain names for popular wikis. MediaWiki or User Chosen
WikyBlog.com No advertising on user accounts, unlimited custom skins, AJAX enhanced tabbed interface WikyBlog (custom) UTF-8 with English, Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Spanish and Korean Some HTML,[1]
No script
No math
WikiZones.com Free, one sub-domain per wiki (yourwiki.wikizones.com), full-text search, standard wiki markup language (MediaWiki compatible) Java-based (custom) All languages (UTF-8), interface in English Wikitext (MediaWiki compatible)
XWiki custom skin, unlimited users XWiki All HTML,[1]
velocity/groovy
No formulas
YourWiki Yes Founded in 2008, YourWiki provides users with their own yourwiki.net sub domain and will support custom domains. There are no limits on quantity of pages, users, traffic, images etc. Low profile adsense advertising only (can be removed for a small fee). Supports custom extensions, skins, css and JavaScript. Also Supports single user login (SUL / SSO / Global Accounts), OpenID, Google Login, Live Journal, Yahoo, AOL and more. Private and Public wikis with access to content dumps (by request). Can close an inactive wiki. Supports migration to and from other wiki hosts. Provides users with WYSIWYG, HTML and wiki syntax editing. Supports images from Wikimedia Commons and Flickr seamlessly as well as videos from most popular video sharing sites (YouTube, GoogleVideo etc). Choose your own free content licence (GFDL, CC, PD etc). Full RSS support. YourWiki also has a Toolserver for hosting scripts and bots. Automated wiki creation has been announced. Will configure Semantic MediaWiki on request. MediaWiki 1.15 Support for the vast majority of languages, Technical Support in English. Most HTML,
JavaScript,
Math formulas
Wiki farm WYSIWYG editing Features Wiki engine Multilingual support Syntax support

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "WikiMatrix - Compare them all" (selectable table), WikiMatrix, 2007, webpage: wikimatrix-org-main.
  2. ^ Approximative rank according to Alexa Internet. Click on the rank to get the last figures.
  3. ^ atwiki traffic rank
  4. ^ Brainkeeper traffic rank
  5. ^ BusinessWiki traffic rank
  6. ^ Central Desktop traffic rank
  7. ^ ClearWiki traffic rank
  8. ^ Confluence Hosted traffic rank
  9. ^ Free for charitable nonprofits and open source projects
  10. ^ CustomerVision BizWiki traffic rank
  11. ^ EditMe traffic rank
  12. ^ EditThis traffic rank
  13. ^ eTouch SamePage traffic rank
  14. ^ GROU.PS SuperWiki traffic rank
  15. ^ HelpingStudents traffic rank
  16. ^ [1]
  17. ^ Hive Wiki traffic rank
  18. ^ HOAwiki traffic rank
  19. ^ Intodit traffic rank
  20. ^ MyFreeWiki traffic rank
  21. ^ Netcipia traffic rank
  22. ^ paid for dedicated servers
  23. ^ nexdo traffic rank
  24. ^ Oddwiki traffic rank
  25. ^ OpenTeams traffic rank
  26. ^ Free for charitable nonprofits and read-only access
  27. ^ Ourproject traffic rank
  28. ^ PAUX traffic rank
  29. ^ PBwiki traffic rank
  30. ^ PicoWiki traffic rank
  31. ^ ProjectForum traffic rank
  32. ^ ProjectLocker traffic rank
  33. ^ Referata traffic rank
  34. ^ Koren, Yaron (2009-01-24). "Custom license?". Referata. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
  35. ^ Russian wiki community traffic rank
  36. ^ SeedWiki traffic rank
  37. ^ SnoutHold Cospire traffic rank
  38. ^ Socialtext traffic rank. Few wikis appear to be on the socialtext.net domain / or most are not public wikis, so the Alexa rating doesn't seem very relevant.
  39. ^ "SocialText Packages & Pricing". Socialtext.com. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  40. ^ Swirrl traffic rank
  41. ^ Swirrl Terms Of Service
  42. ^ Wetpaint traffic rank
  43. ^ Wik.is traffic rank
  44. ^ Wikia traffic rank
  45. ^ Wikidot traffic rank
  46. ^ Wikihost traffic rank
  47. ^ Wiki-site traffic rank
  48. ^ Wikispaces traffic rank
  49. ^ Wiki Spot traffic rank
  50. ^ Davis Wiki traffic rank
  51. ^ (For generally non-commercial projects. See Wiki Spot Community Guidelines)
  52. ^ WikiZones.com traffic rank
  53. ^ Wikkii traffic rank
  54. ^ WikyBlog traffic rank
  55. ^ XWiki traffic rank
  56. ^ YourWiki traffic rank
  57. ^ "ConstantSun: Image upload issues". Constantsun.blogspot.com. 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  58. ^ This is visible from the Control Panel
  59. ^ Archiving Work Orders and Violation Reports, layered permissions, dynamic content, online forms, articles, blogs, slideshow, RSS/Atom, directory, classifieds, mail-in, mobile, newsletters.
  60. ^ "Features". Referata. 2008-11-25. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  61. ^ "viawiki.com". viawiki.com. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
  62. ^ "wikia.com, Help:Semantic MediaWiki". wikia.com. Retrieved 2009-07-22.

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