Comparison of wiki software

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 31 March 2011 2.23.0 9 December 2014[2] MediaWiki GPL v2 Yes UTF-8 Yes PHP MySQL
BrainKeeper BrainKeeper, Inc. 1 September 2005 1 March 2010 Proprietary No Yes Java/Java EE MySQL
Central Desktop Central Desktop Inc. 1 October 2005 2.0 22 February 2010 Proprietary No PHP PostgreSQL
Confluence Atlassian Software Systems 25 March 2004 5.7 10 February 2015[3] Proprietary No[4] UTF-8 Yes Java, Java EE DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL
ConnectedText Eduardo Mauro 2005 6.0.12 21 February 2015 Proprietary No Yes C++ SQL
DokuWiki Andreas Gohr July 2004 2014-09-29[5] 29 September 2014 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 2002 4.0 April 2014 LGPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Java PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Apache Derby, HSQLDB
FlexWiki David Ornstein September 2004 2.1.0.274 20 October 2008 CPL Yes ASP.NET, C# File system, Microsoft SQL Server
Foswiki Foswiki community December 2008 1.1.9 1 March 2013 TWiki GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8 Yes Perl Flat-file, RCS, pluggable storage backend[6]
Gitit John MacFarlane and community 7 November 2008 0.10.3.1[7] 19 Mar 2013 GPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Haskell Git, now also Darcs, Mercurial
Grokola Keyhole Labs September 2014 1.3 MockOla[8] March 2015 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes JavaScript Node.js, Java
IBM Connections IBM 27 June 2007 4.5 CR1 26 June 2013 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes Java/Java EE DB2, MS SQL Server or Oracle
Ikiwiki Joey Hess et al.[9] 29 April 2006[10] 3.20140227[11] 24 November 2014 GNU General Public License v2 +[12] Yes[12] Yes Perl[13] standard version control system[14] such as Git or Subversion or 6+ others[15]
Jive Jive Software 7 January 2007 5.0.3 25 April 2012 Proprietary No ISO8859-1, UTF-8, ... Yes Java EE/Java SQL/LDAP[16]
JotSpot JotSpot (now Google Sites) October 2004 2.0 24 July 2006 Proprietary No Java File system, XML
MediaWiki Magnus Manske 25 January 2002 1.23.1 25 June 2014[17] GPL v2 Yes UTF-8 Yes PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and others
MetaTeam Altova 6 May 2012 1.0 6 May 2012 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes Online service
Midgard Wiki Henri Bergius 29 September 2004 10.05.6[18] 6 March 2012 LGPL Yes PHP MySQL and RCS
MindTouch MindTouch Inc. 25 July 2006 10.1.4 22 January 2013 MediaWiki Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes PHP, C# on Windows or Mono MySQL
MoinMoin Jürgen Hermann; Thomas Waldmann; ... 28 July 2000 1.9.7 17 March 2013 PikiPiki GPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Python Flat-file
MojoMojo Marcus Ramberg & community 29 August 2007 1.09 25 January 2013 Yes UTF-8 Yes Perl PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, others
PBworks David Weekly 30 May 2005 TipiWiki Proprietary No UTF-8 PHP MogileFS, Squid, MySQL, Pound, lighttpd
PhpWiki Steve Wainstead, ... December 1999 1.5.3[19] 4 March 2015 WikiWikiWeb GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8 Yes PHP Berkeley DB, Flat-file, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 8, Firebird
PmWiki Patrick Michaud 6 February 2002 2.2.62 28 February 2014 GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8 Yes PHP Flat-file. MySQL, SQLite (plug-ins)
Qontext Qontext, Inc 6 November 2010 0.144.1 12 December 2010 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes Java Amazon Cloud
SharePoint Microsoft March 2001 2010 22 April 2010 3.0 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes ASP.NET, C# Microsoft SQL Server or Windows Internal Database
SlimWiki SlimWiki July 2014 2014 2014 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes Ruby PostgreSQL
Socialtext Socialtext 2003 5.0.0 28 September 2011 N/A Dual (CPAL) and Proprietary) UTF-8 Perl PostgreSQL
Swiki Mark Guzdial; Jochen Rick October 1999 1.5 6 December 2005 GPL Yes Squeak File system
ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer May 2006 5.5 4 June 2012 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes ASP.NET, C# Microsoft SQL Server
TiddlyWiki Jeremy Ruston September 2004 5.1.7 6 October 2011 BSD Yes UTF-8 Yes JavaScript Single file, MySQL (mod)
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Luis Argerich (200+ devs nowadays) 9 October 2002 13.1 14 Nov 2014[20] LGPL Yes UTF-8 Yes PHP MySQL
Trac Edgewall Software 1 October 2006 1.0.4 8 February 2015 BSD Yes UTF-8 Yes Python MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
Traction TeamPage Traction Software 1 December 1999 6.0 2 June 2014 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 14 October 2013 JosWiki GPL Yes ISO8859-1, UTF-8 Yes Perl Flat-file, RCS, pluggable storage backend[6]
UseModWiki Clifford Adams 22 January 2000 1.0.5 28 August 2009 AtisWiki GPL Yes Perl Flat-file
WackoWiki Roman Ivanov March 2003 5.4.0 17 April 2014 WakkaWiki BSD Yes Yes PHP MySQL
Wagn Grass Commons April 2006 1.12.0 11 September 2013 Instiki GPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Ruby MySQL, PostgreSQL
Wiki Server Apple Inc. ? Proprietary No
Wikispaces Tangient LLC 18 March 2005 Proprietary No UTF-8 Yes PHP MySQL, MogileFS
Wikiwig Steve Goldman (Formerly Starcrouz) 20 July 2004 5.01 29 May 2008 Wikiwig 4.x GPL Yes Yes PHP MySQL
WikiWikiWeb Ward Cunningham 1995 WikiWiki in HyperCard[21] Perl File System
WikkaWiki Wikka Development Team 16 May 2004 1.3.6 24 Dec 2014 WakkaWiki GPL (code) and CC-BY-SA (docs) Yes ISO8859-1 Yes PHP MySQL
XWiki Ludovic Dubost February 2004 7.0.1 30 April 2015 TWiki LGPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Java PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Apache Derby, HSQLDB
ZWiki Simon Michael 5 November 1999 0.61.0 28 October 2008 GPL Yes UTF-8 Yes Python ZODB - Zope Object 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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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 2014-12-09.
  3. ↑ http://blogs.atlassian.com/2015/02/introducing-new-feedback-loop-confluence-5-7/
  4. ↑ Atlassian Confluence Licensing FAQs("Do I get access to the source code?".)
  5. ↑ https://www.dokuwiki.org/changes
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Foswiki mailing list - Foswiki on Wikipedia
  7. ↑ "gitit/CHANGES at master • jgm/gitit". github.com. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  8. ↑ https://keyholesoftware.com/2015/03/18/keyhole-releases-mockola/
  9. ↑ "ikiwiki". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 2012-02-01. Ikiwiki is developed by Joey and many contributors.
  10. ↑ "roadmap". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 2012-02-01. Released 29 April 2006.
  11. ↑ Hess, Joey (2014-11-24), "ikiwiki/ news/ version 3.20141016", ikiwiki, retrieved 2014-12-20
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Free Software". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  13. ↑ "install". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  14. ↑ "ikiwiki feature "Use a Real RCS"". Ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
  15. ↑ "ikiwiki Revision Control Systems". Ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 2010-01-29.
  16. ↑ including: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server
  17. ↑ http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2014-June/000155.html
  18. ↑ Midgard-Project.org
  19. ↑ http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki/
  20. ↑ http://info.tiki.org/article230
  21. ↑ Cunningham, Ward. "WikiHistory". http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory. Retrieved 25 August 2014. An early page, WikiWikiHyperCard, traces wiki ideas back to a HyperCard stack I wrote in the late 80's. This same stack, by the way, spawned CrcCards. I've reconstructed the WikiDesignPrinciples I applied at the time.

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
Confluence Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
ConnectedText Yes Yes Yes Mathematical formulas rendered using LaTeX, directed acyclic graphs rendered with GraphViz
DokuWiki Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes support for LaTeX math; syntax highlighting via plugins.
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
GrokOla Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Syntax Highlighting for Code Blocks; Github-flavored Markdown Syntax; 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 Yes
Midgard Wiki Yes Yes Yes
MindTouch Yes Yes 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
Trac Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes many plugins available for formulas, graphs, etc.
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
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
ConnectedText No No No Yes Yes, templates and themes + CSS Yes, links to renamed document are also renamed
Confluence Yes Yes, CAPTCHA Yes optional Yes, templates and themes + CSS Yes, links are updated
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
GrokOla Yes Yes, Granted access, Passwords, Blacklist Yes Yes Yes Yes
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

MindTouch

 Yes Yes Yes optional Yes Yes
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
Trac Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, templates and themes, html and css 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] Automatic TOC 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]
Confluence Yes Yes, RSS Partial, web UI Java Plug-ins, User Macros in Apache Velocity [11]
ConnectedText No Yes, RSS Yes, many options for export, fewer options for import Yes, scripting of pages using Python and other programming languages No No Yes Yes [12]
DokuWiki Yes, Plugin available Yes, RSS/Atom 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
GrokOla Partial, Github-flavored Markdown No Yes Markdown Yes Yes, highly customizable drag-and-drop Yes Q&A with software development experts through the wiki, Wireframing user interface mockup tool, development education content, presentation mode, collaborative feedback and commenting
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 Automatic TOC 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) actions, handlers MediaWiki syntax Yes Yes [18]
Midgard Wiki No Yes, RSS, all changes No PHP component architecture CMS integration
MindTouch Yes Yes, RSS, XML, JSON No API, Service Oriented Architecture [19]
MoinMoin Yes, v1.5+ Yes, RSS, last changes No different plugin types Yes, selectable parsers [20]
MojoMojo Yes, With live preview Yes, RSS No Yes, plugins and custom additions types Yes, Multiple markup parsers available [21]
PBworks Yes Yes, RSS/Atom No API, AuthAPI, plugins, wikilets [22]
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[23] Yes RSS/Atom/RDF (option): global, per namespace, per page or per watchlist; feed readers (plugins) No very, 500+ plugins and configuration recipes Creole (option), Markdown (plugin)[24] Yes [25]
Qontext Yes Yes, RSS No No No N/A No [26]
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 [27]
WYSIWYG editing Web feeds Export/Import Extensibility Selectable wiki syntax Wiki farms Outliner Mechanism Automatic TOC Other features
Swiki No Some [28]
ThoughtFarmer Yes Yes No Plugins, API used by ThoughtFarmer Professional Services [29]
TiddlyWiki Yes, with FCKeditor or other plugin Yes, RSS Yes plugins Creole [30]
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Yes, with FCKeditor or via Quicktag insertion Yes, RSS/Atom/RDF No Hundreds of features, plugins, modules & mods No Yes (e.g. Siteground) [31]
Trac Yes with plugin Yes, RSS Yes with plugins many plugins available on https://trac-hacks.org/ Yes limited ticket system, access source code repositories (git, mercurial, ...), other features via plugins
Traction TeamPage Yes Yes, Dynamic RSS inbound / outbound No Plug-in architecture for widgets, forms, interface and function modifications [32]
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 [33]
UseModWiki No? Yes No extensions
WackoWiki No, Has toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts to create WikiMarkup, see: WikiEdit Yes, RSS No actions, handlers [34]
Wagn (software) Yes, tinyMCE Yes, RSS, JSON No Yes, Modules API [35]
TiddlyWiki No No Yes plugins, macros Creole [36]
Wikispaces Yes Yes, RSS/Atom No API, widgets, single sign-on (SSO) [37]
Wikiwig Yes, Xinha No No Some
WikkaWiki No Yes, Single page/Comments/Global No Yes, plugins, actions, handlers, menulets [38]
XWiki Yes, using a custom powerful GWT-based editor Yes, RSS Yes, XAR (zipped XWiki ARchive) files Yes, component, plugins, macros, scripts, applications Yes, based on WikiModel, support syntaxes from other wikis Yes No [39]
ZWiki Yes, using Epoz Yes, RSS/Atom No all Zope plugins, LaTeX, and more [40]
WYSIWYG editing Web feeds Export/Import Extensibility Selectable wiki syntax Wiki farms Outliner Mechanism Automatic TOC 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
Confluence Any OS that supports Java 1.4 and servlet 2.4 Tomcat included, or use your own servlet container. Java 1.4
ConnectedText Microsoft Windows No Python optional Yes
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
GrokOla Web; Hosted No, Part of GrokOla membership. No, All software required is delivered as a one package solution. No
IBM Connections Linux (RHEL & SLES), Unix (AIX), Windows[41] 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
MindTouch Linux, Unix, Windows & others Apache, IIS6, IIS7, IIS8 Mono, 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[42] 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[43] PHP Yes
Trac Linux, Windows Recommended (fcgi or wsgi), builtin available SQL database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite)
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 on Jetty/HSQL
ZWiki Linux, Unix, Windows & others Zope Python (included with most Zope installs)
Platform Web server required Other software required Installable to USB stick

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 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. ↑ 4.0 4.1 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, Simple admin interface, Open Plug-in API, Tagging, E-Mail Notifications, Fully supported, Content Lifecycle Management and archiving (addon), Email archiving
  12. ↑ ConnectedText 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. ↑ Highly usable, stores in XML, SOA, API, enterprise arch and business focused, fully supported by MindTouch company website
  20. ↑ Enterprise level security, authentication, and authorization, Email notification, additional desktop edition, XML-RPC content synchronization, searching in attachments (v1.6+).
  21. ↑ Hierarchical node structure and cascading permissions system allows for stewardship of topics. Version control and ability to do 3-way merge on conflict.
  22. ↑ 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.
  23. ↑ JavaScript GUI buttons/Edit Toolbar for most frequently used wiki markup codes (customizable).
  24. ↑ The PmWiki markup rules are easily modifiable and replaceable by plug-ins, should a need for another wikimarkup family be demonstrated.
  25. ↑ Highly sophisticated support for customization. Practically cameleon-like
  26. ↑ Enterprise level security, authentication, and authorization, Email notification,Discussions,Tagging,WYSIWYG-like editor,Social tagging,minimal setup, cross-browser support
  27. ↑ accessible through REST/SOAP APIs
  28. ↑ 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.
  29. ↑ Structured wiki, granular access controls, faceted browsing, revision control, full text search, email notification, photo albums
  30. ↑ Single file, minimal setup, cross-browser
  31. ↑ 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
  32. ↑ 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
  33. ↑ 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
  34. ↑ WYSIWYG-like editor, ACLs, subpages, comments, files, email notification, cloning of pages, installation wizard...
  35. ↑ dynamic data structuring, pure atomism, in-place editing, set-based rules, true file/image permissions, notifications, discussions
  36. ↑ Single file, minimal setup, cross-browser, per page AES256 encryption, tags and title namespaces
  37. ↑ Discussion pages, tagging, email notification, full-text search, user dashboard, localization
  38. ↑ FreeMind support, ACLs, cloning of pages, advanced syntax highlighting using GeSHi, on-the-fly downloading of codeblocks
  39. ↑ 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
  40. ↑ hierarchical pages, revision control, fulltext search, email notification, issue tracker, LaTeX integration
  41. ↑ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27012786&S_CMP=rnav Detailed system requirements for IBM Connections
  42. ↑ Qontext is a cloud based application Reference site
  43. ↑ Tiki Requirements

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