Comparison of wiki farms

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A "wiki farm" is a server or a collection of servers that provides wiki hosting, or a group of wikis hosted on such servers. The following tables compare general information for a number of wiki farms. Please see the individual sites' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date.

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[edit] MediaWiki farms

Wiki farm Price Features Wiki engine Content license
BluWiki [1] free Just a single wiki, not a wiki farm, but the site's purpose is to enable users to publish their own pages and subpages with few content restrictions, not to contribute to a common body of knowledge. No subscription needed, users can quickly make new wiki articles. Subdomains are supported. [2] MediaWiki 1.6.7 GFDL
EditThis.info free (has text ads) Wiki farm with unlimited pages and users, wiki spam protection, 25MB of disk space, and RSS feeds. Be warned that there may not be a way to delete unneeded wikis; the Help Desk at the main site has been unresponsive on this issue. MediaWiki 1.5.5 Wiki creators can set their own
ElWiki.com free (has text ads} Fast setup. A free ElWiki-owned .com/net/org TLD is offered for wikis which reach 10 pages of content. Google AdSense text-ads may be added to the right sidebar. MediaWiki 1.6.7 GFDL
Wiki-site.com free (has text ads} Wiki farm with unlimited pages and users, wiki spam protection user rights control. Interface in many languages. Fast setup. A free *.wiki-site.com domain is offered. Google text-ads added to the right sidebar. MediaWiki 1.6.7 Wiki creators can set their own
Gratis-Wiki [3] free (has text ads) namespace names are in German; there are no other skins than Monobook; 100MB of disk space MediaWiki 1.5.6
Wikia [4] free (has text ads) Wikia (formerly known as Wikicities) is a wiki hosting service created in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. All wikis have common login and preferences. Creation of a wiki is subject to approval; it must have a large potential audience and be likely to attract enough editors. Projects which overlap existing Wikia or Wikimedia are not accepted. There is no means to close an inactive wikia, even if the community has moved elsewhere. Domains, names and identifiers are owned by Wikia Inc, not by the respective communities. There is also a Scratchpad wiki subdivided in categories ("mini-wikis") that welcomes all content. MediaWiki 1.7alpha GFDL

[edit] Other wiki farms

Most of the wiki farms below have WYSIWYG or rich text editors that don't require learning or using Wikitext markup, which is what the above MediaWiki farms employ for editing pages. Those few that do not have editors will likely have their own Wikitext markup language that will be similar to the one used by Wikipedia.

Wiki farm Price Features Wiki engine Content license
@wiki [5] free (has ads) atwiki.com is Free wiki hosting service . you can select Edit-mode (wiki or wysiwyg or text) at creating new pages. Custom
BrainKeeper [6] free and paid options WYSIWYG editing, enterprise-level search, interactive dashboard, workflow, document management, custom data fields, tagging, rss enabled, customization, ideal for enterprise collaboration Custom
Central Desktop [7] free and paid options WYSIWYG editing, access control, full-text search, document management, light project management, database, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, rss enabled, ideal for team collaboration Custom
CustomerVision BizWiki [8] paid WYSIWYG editing, access control, page templates, domain mapping, solution templates include Sales Support, Learning Support, and Project Communication Custom Wiki-engine built on Microsoft platform
EditMe.com [9] paid subscription-based, SSL Encryption, Custom Domain Support, etc. custom wiki engine written in Java
eTouch SamePage [10] paid WYSIWYG editing, project management, permissioning, administration and support for multiple domains Custom Wiki-Engine built on J2EE powered by eTouch CMS
Hive Wiki [11] free public and private wikis WikiText and HTML editing, metasearch, factoring, permissioning, administration and support for multiple domains and publicly creatable subdomains Custom Wiki-Engine built on .NET
JotSpot Wiki [12] free Build wiki applications, WYSIWYG editor, search MS attachments, email integration. Free version limited to 20 pages and 5 users. Recently purchased by Google (as of 1 Nov 06) - which stated will no longer charge for services once the integration is done. Custom
LittleWiki [13] free WYSIWYG editor and plaintext editors custom (Java)
MojWiki [14] free Wiki farm like On-wiki, in Slovenian language. MoinMoin
Netcipia [15] free public and private wikis WYSIWYG Blog 2GB per wiki created, no time limit, right management XWiki
Nexdo (formerly Partnertext) [16] free and paid options WYSIWYG HTML editing custom wiki engine
Oddwiki [17] free Oddmuse
On-wiki [18] free World wide wiki farm, featuring WYSIWYG, attachments, multimedia, writing formulaes, plotting graphs, raw html, and more MoinMoin
Ourproject.org [19] free Full GForged site open to new projects, which have a wiki for document collaboration and Wiki farm MoinMoin Copyleft (choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses)
PAUX [20] free and paid options password-protected wikis on .dreusicke-verlag.de. No page limits, SSL, picture gallery included. Individualized publication of dynamic content, which contains reusable semantic content objects. They are able to represent knowledge in its full complexity, and they make knowledge available as filterable content for Websites, semantic Wiki, detailed-evaluated eLearning and individualized print media. PAUX Copyleft
PBwiki [21] free and paid options Hosts simple, password-protected wikis on .pbwiki.com subdomain. No page limits, SSL, RSS & Atom, ZIP backups, diff, over 90,000 wikis already hosted, six wiki "skins", file uploads, page hiding, page locking custom wiki engine
ProjectForum [22] paid custom wiki engine
Riters.com

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 free line document collaboration service and Wiki farm MoinMoin
Schtuff.com [24] free Supports tags & permissions. Easy backups, but no automatic recovery, if data is lost from server. Registered users can also leave comments on pages. Supports totally open pages, as well. Google-ads displayed at the side of each page. Picture Gallery included w/ new wikis Custom Doesn't require a particular license for contributed material
SeedWiki [25] free and paid options supported by google-ads placed at the bottom of the page; cross-platform WYSIWYG editing, stylesheets, subdomains.seedwiki.com, wiki-mode, subscriptions, plus a host of other things; paid option for removal of Google ads and for having one's own domain that the wiki-owner can tag on to his wiki Custom
SnoutHold Cospire [26] free WYSIWYG editing, permissions, public/private security models, ratings, feedback mechanisms, search engine, category organizer, profiles Custom wiki engine built on new knowledge management principles
Socialtext [27] free and paid options SocialText Open
Uwiki.com [28] free First free wiki farm for Chinese DokuWiki
Wetpaint [29] free Features: True WYSIWYG Editing, 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 Custom Java-based engine Creative Commons
Wiki.com [30] free WYSIWYG editing, access control, full-text search (including file attachments), document management, light project management, database, project templates, RSS enabled, ideal for team collaboration, stores in XML, MediaWiki fork DekiWiki
Wikidot.com [31] free Sites get a subdomain on wikidot.com and 1 free custom domain mapping. Free Sites are supported by ads. RSS import/export, private RSS feeds for Users (notifications and watched items), RSS for page changes and forum, customizable themes, 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 interface. SEO-friendly. No limits on site size. Private (non-public) sites offered for free. heavily modified Text_Wiki engine Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses
Wikihost.org [32] free 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, adSense advertising, Complete wiki export, Unlimited pages, Unlimited Revisions, Diff function, Revert of old revisions GeboGebo by default Creative Commons, others as needed
WikiNote [33] Free No limit on number of pages (64KB/page limit) or number of accounts, complete page history, integration with Shortify custom engine (PHP-based); runs on WS Network UI/logon system No enforced license
Wikispaces [34] free and paid options WYSIWYG editing, 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 wiki engine choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses
Xwiki.com [35] free and paid options XWiki
ViaWiki [36] free and paid options WYSIWYG editing, free version is ad-supported, paid version has option of using own domain, designed for business users, easily attach files, no limit on number of pages and easy backups DekiWiki

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