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

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[edit] General Information

Creator First public release date Latest stable release Stable release date Predecessor Cost (USD) Software licence[1] Open source Encoding Multilingual Programming language Data backend
ArtificialMemory ArtificialMemory Semantic Wiki 02003-04-01 1 April 2003 02007-10-01 1 October 2007 N/A [2] Proprietary No ? ? ASP.NET/c# SQL Server
Axosoft OnTime Axosoft 02007-10-01 1 October 2007 02007-12-05 5 December 2007 N/A Free for 1 User, $395 and up for teams Proprietary No ? Yes ASP.NET/c# SQL Server
BrainKeeper BrainKeeper, Inc. 02006-04-19 19 April 2006 02007-01-15 15 January 2007 N/A [3] Proprietary No ? Supports Multilingual Content J2EE/Java RDBMS
Central Desktop Central Desktop Inc. 02005-10-01 01 October 2005 Winter Release '07 02007-11-12 12 November 2007 N/A [4] Proprietary No ? ? PHP PostgreSQL
Clearspace Jive Software 02007-01-07 7 January 2007 1.10 02007-12-27 27 December 2007 N/A [5] Proprietary No ISO8859-1, UTF-8, … ?
(supports i18n)		 J2EE/Java SQL/LDAP [6]
Confluence Atlassian Software Systems 02004-05-12 12 May 2004 2.8 02008-04-10 10 April 2008 N/A [7] [8] No ? ? Java, Java EE RDB[9]
Corendal Wiki Thierry Danard 02005-05-14 14 May 2005 2007-02-12 N/A Free GPL Yes ? ? Java MySQL or Oracle
coWiki Daniel T. Gorski; Paul Hanchett 02002-03 March 2002 0.3.4[10] 2005-02-24 N/A Free GPL Yes ? ? PHP5 MySQL
Deki Wiki

MindTouch

 MindTouch, OpenGarden.org 02006-07-25 25 July 2006 2006.07.25 02006-07-25 25 July 2006 MediaWiki [11] GPL Yes UTF-8 ? PHP, MONO MySQL
DidiWiki Matthew Allum  ? 0.5 02004-09-30 30 September 2004 N/A Free GPL Yes ? ? C File system
DokuWiki Andreas Gohr 02004-07 July 2004 Release 2008-05-05 2008-05-05 Free GPL v2 Yes UTF-8 Yes PHP File system
EditMe EditMe, LLC 02002-08-01 1 August 2002 2007.06.25 02007-06-25 25 June 2007 N/A From $5/mo Proprietary No ? ? Java (Hosted) MySQL
FlexWiki David Ornstein ? 2.0 02008-02-02 2 February 2008 N/A Free CPL Yes ? ? ASP.NET, C# File system, SQL Server
Instiki David Heinemeier Hansson ? 0.13.0 02008-03-17 17 March 2008 N/A Free Ruby License[12] ? ? ? Ruby Active Record
Creator First public release date Latest stable release Stable release date Predecessor Cost (USD) Software licence[1] Open source Encoding Multilingual Programming language Data backend
IpbWiki GlobalSoft 02006-02-25 25 February 2006 1.7.1 02007-09-25 25 September 2007 N/A [13] Proprietary No ? ? PHP MySql, SQL Server or Oracle
JAMWiki Various 02006-06-30 30 June 2006 0.6.6 02008-06-02 2 June 2008 MediaWiki Free LGPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Java Most JDBC compliant databases, or file system using HSQL
JotSpot JotSpot 02004-10 October 2004 2.0 02006-07-24 24 July 2006 N/A From $100/mo Proprietary No ? ? Java File system, XML
JSPWiki Janne Jalkanen 02001-07-06 6 July 2001 2.4.100 02007-03-02 2 March 2007 N/A Free LGPL Yes ? ? Java Flat-file, RCS, SVN
Kanopia Kanopia, Inc. 02007-08-01 1 August 2007 0.1 02007-08-01 1 August 2007 N/A Free GPL v2 Yes ? ? PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL
Kerika Kerika, Inc. 02005-05-01 1 May 2005 1.1 02007-08-01 1 August 2007 N/A [14] Proprietary No ? ? Java Object-oriented database
MediaWiki Magnus Manske; Various 02002-01-25 25 January 2002 1.12.0 02008-03-20 20 March 2008 N/A Free GPL v2 Yes ? Yes PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL
Midgard Wiki Henri Bergius 02004-09-29 29 September 2004 1.8.3 02007-04-25 25 April 2007 N/A Free LGPL Yes ? ? PHP MySQL and RCS
MoinMoin Jurgen Hermann; Thomas Waldmann; ... 02000-07-28 28 July 2000 1.6.0 02007-12-25 25 December 2007 PikiPiki Free GPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Python Flat-file
Near-Time Near-Time, Inc. 02005-11-20 20 November 2005 2007.28.0 02007-06-27 27 June 2007 N/A [15] Proprietary No ? ? Ruby on Rails mySQL
OddMuseWiki Alex Schroder UseModWiki 0.9 Free GPL Yes ? ? Perl Flat-file
OpenWiki  ? 0.78 sp1 02002-03-19 19 March 2002 N/A Free ? ? ? ? ASP, VBScript MS Access and SQL Server
OpenLink Wiki  ? Free GPL and Commercial License ? ? ? ? ?
PAUX From €300/mo [16] ? ? ? ? ?
PBwiki David Weekly 02005-05-30 30 May 2005 TipiWiki [17] Proprietary No UTF-8 ? PHP MogileFS, Squid, MySQL, Pound, lighttpd
Perspective Alan Slater 02004-03 March 2004 0.922 02007-02-06 6 February 2007 N/A Free GPL Yes ? ? ASP.NET, C#, XSLT Microsoft Indexing Service, XML
PhpWiki Steve Wainstead, ... 01999-12 December 1999 1.3.14 02007-07-01 1 July 2007 WikiWikiWeb Free GPL Yes ? ? PHP Berkeley DB, Flat-file, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle 8, Firebird
PmWiki Patrick Michaud 02002-02-06 6 February 2002 2.1.27 02006-12-11 11 December 2006 N/A Free GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8 Yes PHP Flat-file. MySQL, SQLite (plug-ins)
QwikiWiki 02008-02-01 1 February 2008 N/A Free BSD License Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8  ? PHP Flat-file
ScrewTurn Wiki ScrewTurn Software  ? 2.0.22 02008-01-03 03 January 2008 N/A Free GPL Yes ? Yes ASP.NET, C# MySql, SQL Server or flat-file
Socialtext Socialtext First public release in 2003 2.9.5.2 02007-06 June 2007 2.9.5.1 [18] [19] ? ? ? Perl PostgreSQL
Creator First public release date Latest stable release Stable release date Predecessor Cost (USD) Software licence[1] Open source Encoding Multilingual Programming language Data backend
Springnote Openmaru; NCsoft 02007-03 March 2007 Beta 02007-10 October 2007 N/A Free GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8, Shift_JIS, EUC-KR Yes Ruby on Rails MySQL
Swiki Mark Guzdial; Jochen Rick 01999-10 October 1999 1.5 02005-12-06 6 December 2005 N/A Free GPL Yes ? ? Squeak File system
Sycamore Philip Neustrom 02006-05 May 2006 1.0 02006-05-17 17 May 2006 MoinMoin Free GPL Yes ? ? Python PostgreSQL
ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer 02006-05 May 2006 2.5.1 02008-02-06 6 February 2008 N/A $109/user Proprietary No UTF-8 ? ASP.NET, C# SQL Server
TiddlyWiki Jeremy Ruston 02004-09 September 2004 2.2.4 02007-06-19 19 June 2007 N/A Free BSD Yes ? ? JavaScript Single file, MySQL (mod)
TigerWiki Chabel.org 02005-07 July 2005 2.19 2006-11-02 roWiki Free GPL Yes ? ? PHP File system
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware Luis Argerich (200+ devs nowadays) 02002-10-09 9 October 2002 1.9.11 02008-04-08 8 April 2008 N/A Free LGPL Yes UTF-8 Yes PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle via ADOdb
TWiki Peter Thoeny 01998-10 October 1998 4.2.0 02008-01-22 22 January 2008 JosWiki Free GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8 Yes Perl Flat-file, RCS, pluggable storage backend
UseModWiki Clifford Adams 02000-01-22 22 January 2000 1.0 02003-09-12 12 September 2003 AtisWiki Free GPL Yes ? ? Perl Flat-file
WackoWiki Roman Ivanov 02003-03 March 2003 R4.2 02005-03-27 27 March 2005 WakkaWiki Free BSD Yes ? Yes PHP MySQL
Wiclear David Jobet 02004-06-25 25 June 2004 0.10 02006-03-26 26 March 2006 N/A Free GPL Yes ? ? PHP MySQL
Wikiwig Steve Goldman (Formerly Starcrouz) 02004-07-20 20 July 2004 R5.01 02008-05-28 28 May 2008 Wikiwig 4.x Free GPL Yes ? Yes PHP MySQL
WikkaWiki Wikka Development Team 02004-05-16 16 May 2004 1.1.6.4 02008-03-20 20 March 2008 WakkaWiki Free GPL Yes ISO8859-1 No PHP MySQL
WikkiTikkiTavi Tavi  ? 0.26
NO LONGER DEVELOPED		  ? N/A Free GPL Yes ? ? PHP MySQL
XWiki Ludovic Dubost 02004-02 February 2004 1.3.2 02008-04-15 15 April 2008 TWiki Free GPL/LGPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Java PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Apache Derby, HSQLDB
ZWiki Simon Michael 01999-11-05 5 November 1999 0.60.0 02007-09-15 15 September 2007 N/A Free GPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Python ZODB Object Database
Creator First public release date Latest stable release Stable release date Predecessor Cost (USD) Software licence[1] Open source Encoding Multilingual Programming language Data backend

[edit] Target audience

Wiki software Public Private Corporate/Enterprise Education Intranet
ArtificialMemory No No Yes Yes Yes
Axosoft OnTime No Yes Yes Yes Yes
BrainKeeper Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
Central Desktop Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Clearspace Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Confluence Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Corendal Wiki Yes
coWiki Yes Yes Yes
Deki Wiki MindTouch Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
DidiWiki
EditMe Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
FlexWiki Yes Yes Yes
Instiki Yes Yes
IpbWiki Yes Yes Yes
JAMWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
JotSpot Yes Yes Yes
JSPWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Kerika Yes Yes Yes Yes
MediaWiki Yes Yes Yes
Midgard Wiki Yes Yes Yes
MoinMoin Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Near-Time Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
OddMuseWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
OpenWiki Yes Yes Yes
PBwiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Perspective
PhpWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
PmWiki Yes Yes
ScrewTurn Wiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Socialtext Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Springnote Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Swiki Yes Yes Yes
Sycamore Yes Yes
ThoughtFarmer Yes Yes
TiddlyWiki Yes
TigerWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
TWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
UseModWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
WackoWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wiclear Yes Yes
Wikiwig Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
WikkaWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes
WikkiTikkiTavi Yes
XWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ZWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wiki software Public Private Corporate/Enterprise Education Intranet

[edit] Features 1

File uploading / attachments Spam prevention Page access control[20] Inline HTML[21] User-customizable interface[22] Document renaming
ArtificialMemory Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Axosoft OnTime Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
BrainKeeper Yes Yes, CAPTCHA No Yes Yes[23] Yes
Central Desktop Yes Yes, CAPTCHA No Yes Yes, templates and themes, html and css No
Clearspace
Confluence Yes Yes, CAPTCHA Yes optional Yes, templates and themes Yes, links are updated
Corendal Wiki Yes No Yes Yes Partial - Velocity templates + CSS Yes
coWiki No No Yes, due to UNIX-style permissions No Partial - hand-edited templates, document "Print version" Yes, all pages are seamlessly updated
Deki Wiki

MindTouch

 Yes Yes Yes optional Yes Yes
DidiWiki No No No escaped Partial - style-sheets rename the document file
DokuWiki Yes Yes, blacklist Yes, optional Yes, optional Yes, templates, CSS, PHP; heavily documented PHP API Yes, plugin
EditMe Yes No, blacklist Yes, optional Yes Partial - CSS, XSLT, user editable navigation Yes
FlexWiki Yes Yes, blacklist, CAPTCHA, nofollow Yes Yes, plugin Partial - CSS, templates, WikiTalk Yes, old page becomes a redirect
Instiki Yes No No Yes Partial - CSS No
File uploading / attachments Spam prevention Page access control[20] Inline HTML[21] User-customizable interface[22] Document renaming
IpbWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial - many features are user-customizable, templates Yes, old page becomes a redirect
JAMWiki Yes Yes, content by regexp Yes Yes, optional Yes - templates and editable CSS stylesheet topic Yes, old page becomes a redirect
JotSpot Yes No Yes Yes, optional Partial - CSS Yes
JSPWiki Yes Yes, content by regexp Yes Yes, optional Partial - templates Patch available
Kerika Yes Yes, ACL for each project Yes No Partial - customizable toolbar Yes, full document management
MediaWiki Yes Yes, URL blacklist, word blacklist, IP blocking, captchas (as used on wikinews)[24] Yes 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 Yes No Yes - Themes, templates, CSS, XSLT, user editable navigation Yes, old page can be a redirect
Near-Time Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, templates, html, custom navigation portal, custom data fields, CSS Yes
OddMuseWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes, plugin CSS Yes
OpenWiki Yes Yes Yes No
OpenLink Wiki Yes Yes Yes Yes templates, skins, user CSS, XSLT Yes
PAUX Yes Yes Yes Yes templates, skins, user CSS Yes
PBwiki Yes Yes - passwords, SSO-capable integration, ACLs, IP whitelisting/blacklisting Yes Yes, and plugins Partial - CSS No
Perspective Yes Yes (per collection) parameterized Raw Includes, in-page XSLT XSLT, CSS Yes, with aliases
PhpWiki Yes Yes, CPAN Blog::SpamAssassin Yes plugin themes; un-documented Yes
PmWiki Yes Yes[25] Yes Yes, module Yes, themes, per page/per group CSS, ... Yes, module
Socialtext Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
File uploading / attachments Spam prevention Page access control[20] Inline HTML[21] User-customizable interface[22] Document renaming
Springnote Yes Yes Yes Yes Background color customization Yes
Swiki Yes Yes, block IP Addresses, words, UserIDs Yes Yes For AniAniWebs, CSS Yes, updating all backlinks
Sycamore Yes Yes, block IP Addresses, UserIDs, hidden email addresses, CAPTCHA Yes No user CSS, themes Yes, old page redirects
ThoughtFarmer Yes N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes
TiddlyWiki No No No Yes, plugin Yes, themes, user CSS, modules Yes
TigerWiki No No, to be coded Yes, password protection No Partial - style-sheets, template No
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware Yes Yes Yes Yes themes, user CSS, modules Yes
TWiki Yes Yes[26] Yes Yes templates, skins, user CSS Yes, fixing backlinks
UseModWiki Yes Yes, IP blacklist Yes? Yes? CSS Yes, admins only
WackoWiki Yes Yes, referrer blacklist Yes Yes - configurable/safe themes, style-sheets Yes
Wiclear Yes Yes, blacklist captcha Yes, available for plugin too Yes themes, style-sheets Yes
Wikiwig Yes Yes,Captcha Yes Yes Partial Yes
WikkaWiki Yes Yes, referrer blacklist (module), HTTP REQUEST analysis (module) Yes Yes - configurable/safe style-sheets No
WikkiTikkiTavi Yes Yes, Captcha No Yes - configurable/safe style-sheets No
XWiki Yes Yes Yes style-sheets, templates, themes Yes
ZWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes style-sheets, templates, skins Yes
File uploading / attachments Spam prevention Page access control[20] Inline HTML[21] User-customizable interface[22] Document renaming

[edit] Features 2

WYSIWYG editing Web feeds Extensibility Cross-wiki support Other features
ArtificialMemory Yes Yes, RSS No No [27]
Axosoft OnTime Yes No Yes No [28]
BrainKeeper Yes Yes, RSS [29]
Central Desktop Yes Yes, RSS [30]
Clearspace
Confluence Yes Yes, RSS Java Plug-ins, User Macros in Apache Velocity [31]
Corendal Wiki Yes No patch mechanism [32]
coWiki ? Yes, RSS[2] plugins via an OOP interface [33]
Deki Wiki

MindTouch

 Yes Yes, RSS, XML, JSON API, Service Oriented Architecture [34]
DidiWiki No No [35]
DokuWiki YesQuickbuttons Yes, RSS/Atom[3] Yes, Plugin API Yes [36]
EditMe Yes Yes, RSS javascript [37]
FlexWiki No Yes, RSS ASP, WikiTalk, .Net Reflection plugins Forms, Scripting, Integrated Weblog and Threaded Message Forum
Instiki No fairly trivial with minimal Ruby knowledge Yes, can use different (administrator-set) markup languages. [38]
WYSIWYG editing Web feeds Extensibility Cross-wiki support Other features
IpbWiki No Yes, RSS/Atom actions, handlers [39]
JAMWiki Partial, optional editing buttons Yes, RSS Plugin wiki syntax parser (default is Mediawiki syntax)
JotSpot Yes Yes, RSS, per page plugins, server-side Javascript [40]
JSPWiki Partial, alpha Yes, RSS, per page plugins, filters, providers Weblog integration
Kerika Yes, full graphical Wiki features No not yet [41]
MediaWiki No Yes, RSS/Atom actions, handlers [42]
Midgard Wiki No Yes, RSS, all changes PHP component architecture CMS integration
MoinMoin Yes, v1.5+ Yes, RSS, last changes different plugin types Yes, selectable parsers [43]
Near-Time Yes Yes, RSS in/out API [44]
OddMuseWiki Yes, plugin Yes plugins [45]
OpenWiki No
OpenLink Wiki Yes Yes, RSS/Atom/RDF plugins, Virtuoso hosted PHP integration Yes, publish wiki in other formats (Docbook and HTML) [46]
PAUX Yes Yes, RSS/Atom/RDF actions [47]
PBwiki Yes Yes, RSS/Atom API, AuthAPI, plugins, wikilets [48]
Perspective Yes, IE, Mozilla & Firefox Yes, RSS (last day's changes) HTML Includes, XSLT includes that can take external URL contents, .Net action classes [49]
PhpWiki Template:Module Yes RSS/Atom/RDF: global, per page or per user plugins support all databases
PmWiki No Yes very, 100+ plugins WikiCreole (option) [50] [51]
Socialtext Yes Yes, RSS feeds, Google/Technorati search results using REST/SOAP APIs [52]
WYSIWYG editing Web feeds Extensibility Cross-wiki support Other features
Springnote Yes Yes, RSS feeds, Google search results API, plugins, mashups, widgets No [53]
Swiki No Some [54]
Sycamore No Yes, RSS each page, bookmarks RSS [55]
ThoughtFarmer Yes Yes Plugins, API used by ThoughtFarmer Professional Services [56]
TiddlyWiki No Yes, RSS plugins
TigerWiki No Yes, RSS with plugin Code modification [57]
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware Partial, via Quicktag insertion Yes, RSS/Atom/RDF Hundreds of features, plugins, modules & mods No [58]
TWiki Yes, pre-installed plugin Yes, RSS/Atom, with search string 400+ extensions; Plugin API for developers; TWiki markup/scripting for users to create wiki applications Yes, user selectable wiki syntax with EditSyntaxPlugin [59]
UseModWiki No? Yes extensions
WackoWiki Yes, WikiEdit Yes, RSS actions, handlers [60]
Wiclear No Yes, RSS/Atom plugins [61]
Wikiwig Yes, Xinha No Some
WikkaWiki Yes, WikiEdit Yes, Single page/Comments/Global actions, handlers [62]
WikkiTikkiTavi No bunch of custom stuff in php
XWiki Yes, using TinyMCE Yes, RSS plugins, macros, scripts, applications [63]
ZWiki Yes, using Epoz Yes, RSS/Atom all Zope plugins, LaTeX, and more [64]
WYSIWYG editing Web feeds Extensibility Cross-wiki support Other features

[edit] Installation

Platform Ease of installation[65] Web-server required Other software required Installable to USB stick
ArtificialMemory SaaS - hosted Hosted - no installation or setup required None None
Axosoft OnTime SaaS (hosted) or Installed on MS Platform Hosted requires no installation or Installed has easy-to-use Wizard IIS MS SQL Express or Full MS SQL Server
BrainKeeper NA - hosted Hosted - no installation or setup required None None
Central Desktop NA - hosted Hosted - no set required None None
Clearspace
Confluence Any OS that supports Java 1.4 and servlet 2.4 Easy, Configuration Wizard Tomcat included, or use your own servlet container. Java 1.4
Corendal Wiki Any OS that supports Java 1.4 and servlet 2.4 Moderately simple Tomcat, Oracle Application Server Java, MySQL or Oracle, Tomcat or Oracle Application Server
coWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Apache with PHP MySQL, PHP
Deki Wiki

MindTouch

 Linux, Unix, MSW & others Hosted, Moderately simple, Appliance Apache Mono, MySQl, PHP
DidiWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others simple None (built-in) none
DokuWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Moderately simple Should work on any web server with PHP PHP Yes
EditMe Linux, Unix, MSW & others None Required None Required None
FlexWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Moderately simple IIS/Apache ASP.Net/Mono
Instiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Trivial None (built-in) Ruby
Platform Ease of installation[65] Web-server required Other software required
IpbWiki Linux, Macs, Unix, MSW & others Moderately simple Apache or IIS with PHP 4+ MySQL, PHP
JAMWiki Any OS that supports Java 1.4 and servlet 2.4 Simple, WAR file and one page web-based form Any servlet 2.4-compliant application server Java 1.4
JotSpot Linux, Unix, MSW & others Easy, VMWare virtual appliance None (built-in) VMWare Player
JSPWiki Any OS that supports Java 1.4 and servlet 2.4 Moderately simple any servlet 2.3-compliant web server Java 1.4
Kerika Any OS that supports Java 1.5 Very easy (under 2 minutes) None Java 1.5
MediaWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Moderately simple Apache or IIS with PHP 5.0+ MySQL, PHP5
Midgard Wiki Linux, Unix & others Easy, requires root Apache with PHP MySQL, PHP
MoinMoin Linux, Unix, MSW & others Easy for Desktop version None for Desktop version Python
Near-Time NA - hosted Hosted: no set-up or installation required None None
OddMuseWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Easy Any web server with cgi support Perl
OpenWiki MSW & others Easy IIS ASP
OpenLink Wiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Easy OpenLink Virtuoso OpenLink Virtuoso
PAUX Any OS that supports Java 1.5 Easy None (built-in) Java
PBwiki SaaS - hosted Hosted - no installation or setup required None None
Perspective MSW & others Moderately simple IIS .NET Runtime 1.1
PhpWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Moderately simple Any Web-server with PHP PHP
PmWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Very Easy Any Web-server with PHP, can run without a web server. PHP
Socialtext NA - hosted hosted service without installation as an option; appliance option available with managed service for remote upgrades and administration no, all required components included no, all required components included
Platform Ease of installation[65] Web-server required Other software required
Springnote NA - hosted Hosted - no installation or setup required None None
Swiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Very Easy: Just drag the image file over the executable or (non-GUI) just use the image file as an executable parameter None--installs own server. Can coexist with IIS and Apache by running on alternate port None
Sycamore Linux, Unix & others Easy Apache Python (with Image Library), MySQL/PostgreSQL, Xapian
ThoughtFarmer MSW & others Managed installation MS-Windows Server 2003 SQL Server 2005
TiddlyWiki MSW & others Easy None None
TigerWiki Linux, Unix & others Easy Any Web-server with PHP PHP
TikiWiki CMS/Groupware Linux, Unix, MSW & others Moderately simple via install script. Telnet/ssh is useful but not necessary. Any Web-server with PHP PHP Yes
TWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Native install: Easy on *nix, moderately difficult on MS-Windows. Any Web-server with cgi support. Web-server included in VMware appliance and TWiki for MS-Windows Personal. Perl, RCS
UseModWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Easy Any web server with cgi support Perl
WackoWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Quick and easy, multilingual installer Apache v1.3.x (v2 recommended), IIS MySQL, PHP
Wiclear Linux, Unix & others Easy, in 4 steps, update wizard Apache with PHP. IIS untested MySQL, PHP
Wikiwig Linux, Unix, MSW & others Easy Any with PHP MySQL, PHP
WikkaWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Easy installation/upgrade, through web-wizard Any Web-server with PHP MySQL/PHP
WikkiTikkiTavi Linux, Unix & others Moderate Any Web-server with PHP MySQL/PHP
XWiki Java Platform Simple package for MS-Windows Available, Simple JAR autoinstaller for any platform Any J2EE webserver Java
ZWiki Linux, Unix, MSW & others Moderate (easy if Zope is already installed) Zope Python (included with most Zope installs)
Platform Ease of installation[65] Web-server required Other software required Installable to USB stick

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d 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. ^ Enterprise Subscriptions start at +$500/month
  3. ^ Subscriptions start at $5/month
  4. ^ Free Ver Available, Paid plans start at $25/month
  5. ^ For internal collaboration and communities of practice: free for up to 5 users, additional users $59/user/year
  6. ^ including: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2 and SQL Server
  7. ^ Free (open source project or community or personal), $1200–8000 commercial, $600–4000 academic
  8. ^ Commercial, Academic, Community, Personal, Open Source Project
  9. ^ (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server)
  10. ^ NO LONGER SUPPORTED
  11. ^ Free and paid hosted versions. Free open source version available for download. Paid enterprise versions available as well
  12. ^ Instiki - Ruby License Instiki is distributed under the same terms as Ruby itself, per the Ruby license.
  13. ^ Free for the basic version, 30$/year for full version
  14. ^ $9.95/month/user; free for anyone with ".edu" email address
  15. ^ Starts at $24.99 per month for unlimited spaces and unlimited users
  16. ^ Free and Commercial License
  17. ^ Free & Paid options available
  18. ^ Pricing varies. Available deployment options include: free open-source and VMware image downloads, hosted services and dedicated appliances.
  19. ^ Open-source and commercial licensing options
  20. ^ a b c d 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).
  21. ^ a b c d 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.
  22. ^ a b c d 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.
  23. ^ templates, html, custom navigation portal, custom data fields
  24. ^ URL anding are available using a MediaWiki extension. [1]
  25. ^ word/URL block (addon, auto-upd. database), URL-approval (option), encrypt e-mails (addon), nofollow, Captcha (addon)
  26. ^ IP blacklist, content by regexp, excessive activities, scripted registration prevention (plugin), hidden e-mail addresses
  27. ^ Ajax UI; Semantic Wiki; natural language/text import of entities, attributes, and relations; inlclusions (articles in articles); innovative features aimed at cutting edge knowledge workers
  28. ^ Windows and Web UI; Powerful Search; Project Hierarchy; Auto TOC Creation; Latest Edits Page; Powerful security; Integrated project management tools
  29. ^ Enterprise-level Search, Interactive Dashboard, Tagging, Content Workflow, Custom Data Fields, Simple but Comprehensive Administration
  30. ^ Block architecture, Calendars, Discussions, Database feature, Tasks and Milestones Blocks available
  31. ^ Enterprise level security, Simple admin interface, Open Plug-in API, Tagging, E-Mail Notifications, Fully supported
  32. ^ For Corporate environments. Articles hierarchy. Integrated with Active Directory users and groups, NTLM authentication, Workflow, Revisions, Subscriptions, WYSIWYG editor, Access Control (Read and Write)
  33. ^ Data saved hierarchic (web trees) and in XML, per-page threaded comments, comfortable installation wizard
  34. ^ Highly usable, stores in XML, SOA, API, enterprise arch and business focused, fully supported by MindTouch company website
  35. ^ extremely fast and requires very little RAM, built-in web server
  36. ^ Section Editing, XHTML-Compliant, nice tables, side-by-side diff, namespaces, Interwiki
  37. ^ Multi-level access controls, hosted solution, side-by-side diff, Email notifications
  38. ^ Trivial to set up on any platform that supports Ruby. Supports inline HTML, Textile, Markdown, and RDoc.
  39. ^ Integration with Invision Power Board, bbcode support
  40. ^ Support for server-side Javascript, VMWare virtual appliance
  41. ^ Graphical wiki with hybrid peer-to-peer networking, can send project updates by email to non-users, can create private networks
  42. ^ Per-article discussion page, watchlist, searching, email notification (built in, but currently disabled on Wikipedia)
  43. ^ Enterprise level security, authentication, and authorization, Email notification, additional desktop edition, XML-RPC content synchronization, searching in attachments (v1.6+).
  44. ^ Enterprise level security, Simple admin interface, Categorizing and Tagging, Analytics, Premium Business Engine, Fully supported
  45. ^ very easily extensible, themeable, easy setup of wiki farms
  46. ^ Based on WebDAV can be maintained by any WebDAV user agent, LDAP Integration, OpenLink Data Space Integration, Wiki Cluster and Tag support, WYSIWIG Editor, Revisions, Access Control List
  47. ^ 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.
  48. ^ 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.
  49. ^ Searching over MS Office documents, can search files in folders outside of the Wiki (including MS Office files), Active Directory integration, User authorisation based on AD Group membership, Private Content
  50. ^ The PmWiki markup rules are easily modifiable and replaceable by plug-ins, should a need for another wikimarkup family be demonstrated.
  51. ^ Highly sophisticated support for customization. Practically cameleon-like
  52. ^ accessible through REST/SOAP APIs
  53. ^ API that provides usage of all service features, Opensource WYSIWYG editor - Xquared, importing of various file formats (doc, odt, txt, html), multi-file uploading, clean UI, group wiki, XML-RPC, tags, revision control, full text search, e-mail notification, various templates, video insertion features
  54. ^ 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.
  55. ^ Javascript based quick edit, web based configuration, searching, built-in map function
  56. ^ Structured wiki, granular access controls, faceted browsing, revision control, full text search, email notification, photo albums
  57. ^ All minimal features that a wiki needs
  58. ^ 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 Tikiwiki content, Multitiki installations
  59. ^ 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
  60. ^ WYSIWYG-like editor, ACLs, subpages, comments, files, email notification, cloning of pages, installation wizard...
  61. ^ hierarchical pages, linked translations, multilingual, ACLs, section editing, XHTML compliant, side-by-side diff, email notifications, admin panel, moderator/admin/user
  62. ^ FreeMind support, ACLs, cloning of pages, advanced syntax highlighting using GeSHi, on-the-fly downloading of codeblocks
  63. ^ 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
  64. ^ hierarchical pages, revision control, fulltext search, email notification, issue tracker, LaTeX integration
  65. ^ a b c d “Ease of installation” is expressed relative to other server software packages, and not to desktop applications.

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