NOTE: This is a draft reformatting of Comparison of wiki software.
 | This article possibly contains original research. (March 2011) |
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki software packages.
General information edit
| Name | Creator | First public release date | Latest stable release | Stable release date | Predecessor | Cost (USD) | Software license[1] | Open source | Encoding | Multilingual | Programming language | Data backend |
|---|
| BrainKeeper | BrainKeeper, Inc. | September 1, 2005 | March 1, 2010 | [2] | Proprietary | No | Yes | Java/Java EE | MySQL | |||
| Central Desktop | Central Desktop Inc. | October 1, 2005 | 2.0 | February 22, 2010 | [3] | Proprietary | No | PHP | PostgreSQL | |||
| codeBeamer | Intland Software | 2002 | 6.0 | March 27, 2012 | Proprietary | No | UTF-8 | Yes | Java | MySQL, Oracle, Apache Derby or Postgres | ||
| Confluence | Atlassian Software Systems | March 25, 2004 | 4.2.1 | April 11, 2012 | [4] | [5] | No[6] | UTF-8 | Yes | Java, Java EE | DB2, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL | |
| coWiki | Daniel T. Gorski; Paul Hanchett | March 2002 | 0.3.4 | February 24, 2005 | Free | GPL | Yes | PHP5 | MySQL | |||
| MindTouch | MindTouch Inc. & community | July 25, 2006 | 10.1.0 | June 28, 2011 | MediaWiki | [7] | GPL/LGPL, Apache License | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | PHP, C# on Windows or Mono | MySQL |
| DokuWiki | Andreas Gohr | July 2004 | January 25, 2012 | Free | GPL v2 | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | PHP | File system | ||
| Drupal Wiki | Drupal Community | March 2007 | 6.2 | March 24, 2012 | Free | GPL v2 | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | PHP | MySQL 4.1 or higher, PostgreSQL 7.1 | |
| EditMe | Matt Wiseley | August 2003 | Non-free From $5/mo | Proprietary | No | ISO8859-1 | No | Java | MySQL | |||
| FlexWiki | David Ornstein | 2.1.0.274 | October 20, 2008 | Free | CPL | Yes | ASP.NET, C# | File system, Microsoft SQL Server | ||||
| Foswiki | Foswiki community | December 2008 | 1.1.5 | April 10, 2012 | TWiki | [8] | GPL | Yes | ISO8859-1, UTF-8 | Yes | Perl | Flat-file, RCS, pluggable storage backend[9] |
| Gitit | John MacFarlane and community | November 7, 2008 | 0.9.0.1 | February 15, 2012 | Free | GPL | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | Haskell | Git, now also Darcs, Mercurial | |
| Gollum | GitHub community | August 12, 2010 | 1.4.0 | April 10, 2012 | Free | MIT | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | Ruby | Git | |
| IBM Connections | IBM | June 27, 2007 | 3.0.1.1 | March 17, 2012 | Non-free for $60/user per year (3 year contract)[10] | Proprietary | No | UTF-8 | Yes | Java/Java EE | DB2, MS SQL Server or Oracle | |
| Ikiwiki | Joey Hess et al.[11] | April 29, 2006[12] | 3.20120419[13][14] | April 19, 2012 | Free[15] | GNU General Public License v2 +[15] | Yes[15] | Yes | Perl[16] | standard version control system[17] such as Git or Subversion or 6+ others[18] | ||
| JAMWiki | Various | June 30, 2006 | 1.2.0 | March 27, 2012 | MediaWiki | Free | LGPL | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | Java | Most JDBC compliant databases, or file system using HSQL |
| Jive SBS | Jive Software | January 7, 2007 | 5.0.3 | April 25, 2012 | [19] | Proprietary | No | ISO8859-1, UTF-8, ... | Yes | Java EE/Java | SQL/LDAP[20] | |
| JotSpot | JotSpot | October 2004 | 2.0 | July 24, 2006 | Non-free From $100/mo | Proprietary | No | Java | File system, XML | |||
| MediaWiki | Wikimedia Foundation | January 25, 2002 | 1.19.0 | May 2, 2012 | Free | GPL v2 | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | PHP | MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite | |
| Midgard Wiki | Henri Bergius | September 29, 2004 | 10.05.6[21] | March 6, 2012 | Free | LGPL | Yes | PHP | MySQL and RCS | |||
| MoinMoin | Jürgen Hermann; Thomas Waldmann; ... | July 28, 2000 | 1.9.4 | February 21, 2012 | PikiPiki | Free | GPL | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | Python | Flat-file |
| MojoMojo | Marcus Ramberg & community | August 29, 2007 | 1.05 | September 14, 2011 | Free | Perl | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | Perl | PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, others | |
| OddMuseWiki | Alex Schroeder | 1.934 | November 13, 2009[22] | UseModWiki 0.9 | Free | GPL | Yes | UTF-8[23] | Perl | Flat-file | ||
| PBworks | David Weekly | May 30, 2005 | TipiWiki | [24] | Proprietary | No | UTF-8 | PHP | MogileFS, Squid, MySQL, Pound, lighttpd | |||
| PhpWiki | Steve Wainstead, ... | December 1999 | 1.3.14 | July 1, 2007 | WikiWikiWeb | Free | GPL | Yes | ISO8859-1, UTF-8 | Yes | PHP | Berkeley DB, Flat-file, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 8, Firebird |
| Pier | Lukas Renggli | 2.0 | SmallWiki | Free | MIT | Yes | Smalltalk, Squeak | Image-based, and pluggable | ||||
| PmWiki | Patrick Michaud | February 6, 2002 | 2.2.37 | May 1, 2012 | Free | GPL | Yes | ISO8859-1, UTF-8 | Yes | PHP | Flat-file. MySQL, SQLite (plug-ins) | |
| ProjectForum | CourseForum Technologies | January 2003 | 7.2.1 | January 11, 2012 | [25] | Proprietary | No | UTF-8 | Various (precompiled) | Metakit | ||
| Qontext | Qontext, Inc | November 6, 2010 | 0.144.1 | December 12, 2010 | Refer website | Proprietary | No | UTF-8 | Yes | Java | Amazon Cloud | |
| SamePage | eTouch Systems | 2005–2007 | 4.4.0.0.239 | [26] | Proprietary | No | Yes | Java EE/Java | SQL/LDAP | |||
| SharePoint Foundation | Microsoft | March 2001 | 2010 | April 22, 2010 | 3.0 | Free[27] | Proprietary | No | UTF-8 | Yes | ASP.NET, C# | Microsoft SQL Server or Windows Internal Database |
| SharePoint Server | Microsoft | 2001 | 2010 | April 22, 2010 | 2007 | Non-free from $90/user or from $3/mo[28] | Proprietary | No | UTF-8 | Yes | ASP.NET, C# | Microsoft SQL Server or Windows Internal Database |
| SMW+ | ontoprise GmbH | 1.7.0 | April 25, 2012 | MediaWiki | Free | GPL | Yes | UTF-8 | PHP | MySQL | ||
| Socialtext | Socialtext | 2003 | 5.0.0 | September 28, 2011 | N/A | [29] | [30] | UTF-8 | Perl | PostgreSQL | ||
| Swiki | Mark Guzdial; Jochen Rick | October 1999 | 1.5 | December 6, 2005 | Free | GPL | Yes | Squeak | File system | |||
| ThoughtFarmer | ThoughtFarmer | May 2006 | 5.0.2 | November 24, 2011 | Non-free $109/user | Proprietary | No | UTF-8 | Yes | ASP.NET, C# | Microsoft SQL Server | |
| TiddlyWiki | Jeremy Ruston | September 2004 | 2.6.5 | October 6, 2011 | Free | BSD | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | JavaScript | Single file, MySQL (mod) | |
| TigerWiki | Chabel.org | July 2005 | 2.19 | November 2, 2006 | roWiki | Free | GPL | Yes | PHP | File system | ||
| Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Luis Argerich (200+ devs nowadays) | October 9, 2002 | 8.4 | May 5, 2012 | Free | LGPL | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | PHP | MySQL | |
| Traction TeamPage | Traction Software | December 1, 1999 | 5.2 | May 10, 2011 | [31] | 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 | 5.1.1 | January 14, 2012 | JosWiki | [32] | GPL | Yes | ISO8859-1, UTF-8 | Yes | Perl | Flat-file, RCS, pluggable storage backend[33] |
| UseModWiki | Clifford Adams | January 22, 2000 | 1.0.5 | August 28, 2009 | AtisWiki | Free | GPL | Yes | Perl | Flat-file | ||
| WackoWiki | Roman Ivanov | March 2003 | R5.0 | March 22, 2012 | WakkaWiki | Free | BSD | Yes | Yes | PHP | MySQL | |
| Wiki Server | Apple Inc. | comes with OS X Server | Proprietary | No | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikispaces | Tangient LLC | March 18, 2005 | [24] | Proprietary | No | UTF-8 | Yes | PHP | MySQL, MogileFS | |||
| Wikiwig | Steve Goldman (Formerly Starcrouz) | July 20, 2004 | 5.01 | May 29, 2008 | Wikiwig 4.x | Free | GPL | Yes | Yes | PHP | MySQL | |
| WikkaWiki | Wikka Development Team | May 16, 2004 | 1.3.2-p7 | December 6, 2011 | WakkaWiki | Free | GPL | Yes | ISO8859-1 | Yes | PHP | MySQL |
| wiki, WikiWikiWeb | Ward Cunningham | 1995 | Apple HyperCard | see QuickWiki | Perl | |||||||
| XWiki | Ludovic Dubost | February 2004 | 4.0.0 | April 30, 2012 | Twiki | Free | LGPL | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | Java | PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Apache Derby, HSQLDB |
| ZWiki | Simon Michael | November 5, 1999 | 0.61.0 | October 28, 2008 | Free | GPL | Yes | UTF-8 | Yes | Python | ZODB - Zope Object Database |
References edit
- ^ Licenses here are a summary, and are not taken to be complete statements of the licenses. Some packages may use libraries under different licenses.
- ^ Paid plans start at $17/month
- ^ Free Ver Available, Paid plans start at $25/month
- ^ Free (open source project or community or personal), $1200–8000 commercial, $600–4000 academic
- ^ Commercial, Academic, Community, Personal, Open Source Project
- ^ Atlassian Confluence Licensing FAQs("Do I get access to the source code?".)
- ^ Free & open-source edition, paid enterprise edition, and free and paid hosted versions offered.
- ^ Free download at foswiki.org
- ^ Foswiki mailing list - Foswiki on Wikipedia
- ^ IBM Connections Product Homepage
- ^ "ikiwiki". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
Ikiwiki is developed by Joey and many contributors.
{{cite web}}: External link in|quote= - ^ "roadmap". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
Released 29 April 2006.
- ^ "version 3.20120419". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ^ "Debian -- Details of source package ikiwiki in sid". Debian. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ^ a b c "Free Software". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ "install". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- ^ "ikiwiki feature "Use a Real RCS"". Ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
- ^ "ikiwiki Revision Control Systems". Ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
- ^ For internal collaboration and communities of practice: free for up to 5 users, additional users $59/user/year
- ^ including: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server
- ^ Midgard-Project.org
- ^ Index of /releases/oddmuse – download.savannah.gnu.org
- ^ The HttpCharset option is set to UTF-8 by default
- ^ a b Free & Paid options available
- ^ Free and paid versions available.
- ^ For internal collaboration and knowledge management: SaaS & hosted pricing
- ^ user licence is included in Windows Server CAL
- ^ price for whole suite, including wiki system, ECM, social software, ...
- ^ Pricing varies. Available deployment options include: free open-source and VMware image downloads, hosted services and dedicated appliances.
- ^ Open-source (CPAL) and commercial licensing options
- ^ Free for personal or commercial use with up to 5 login accounts for contributors / editors / administrators and unlimited visitor access (no login required). Pricing starts at $3750 / year for 25 login accounts. Amazon EC2 hosting available.
- ^ Free download at twiki.org; twiki.net offers Certified TWiki Virtual Appliance with/without support, and paid hosting solutions
- ^ Foswiki mailing list - Foswiki on Wikipedia
Target audience edit
| Wiki software | Public | Private | Corporate/ Enterprise | Education | Intranet | Personal | Scientific/ Technical/ Mathematical |
|---|
| BrainKeeper | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Desktop | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| codeBeamer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Confluence | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| coWiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| MindTouch | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| DokuWiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| EditMe | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| FlexWiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Foswiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 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 |
| JAMWiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Jive SBS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| JotSpot | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| MediaWiki | Yes | Yes[1] | Yes | ||||
| Midgard Wiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| MoinMoin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| MojoMojo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Noösphere | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Latex input | |
| OddMuseWiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| PBworks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| PhpWiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| PmWiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ProjectForum | 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 |
| SMW+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Socialtext | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Swiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| ThoughtFarmer | Yes | Yes | |||||
| TiddlyWiki | Yes | Yes | |||||
| TigerWiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Traction TeamPage | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| TWiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| UseModWiki | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| WackoWiki | 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 |
Features and installation edit
Features edit
| Wiki software | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Desktop | Yes | Yes, CAPTCHA | No | Yes | Yes, templates and themes, html and css | No |
| codeBeamer | Yes | No | Yes | optional | Partial - JSP pages + CSS | Yes, links don't break |
| Confluence | Yes | Yes, CAPTCHA | Yes | optional | Yes, templates and themes + CSS | Yes, links are updated |
| coWiki | No | No | Yes, due to UNIX-style permissions | No | Partial - hand-edited templates, document "Print version" | Yes, all pages are seamlessly updated |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | optional | Yes | Yes | |
| DokuWiki | Yes | Yes, blacklist | Yes, optional | Yes, optional | Yes, templates, CSS, PHP; heavily documented PHP API | Yes, plugin |
| EditMe | Yes | Yes, CAPTCHA | Yes, | Yes, | Yes, templates, CSS, [XHTML], [JavaScript] | Yes, |
| FlexWiki | Yes | Yes, blacklist, CAPTCHA, nofollow | Yes | Yes, plugin | Partial - CSS, templates, WikiTalk | Yes, old page becomes a redirect |
| Foswiki | Yes | Yes[4] | Yes | Yes | templates, skins, user CSS | Yes, fixing backlinks |
| Gitit | Yes | Yes, reCAPTCHA | Yes | Yes, | Yes - Templates, CSS | Yes, old page becomes a redirect |
| IBM Connections | Yes | Yes, Only in private modus | No, Not default | Yes, | Yes - Templates and/or CSS and/or product modification | Yes |
| JAMWiki | Yes | Yes, content by regular expressions | Yes | Yes, optional | Yes - templates and editable CSS stylesheet topic | Yes, old page becomes a redirect |
| Jive SBS | 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 | 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, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ProjectForum | Yes | Yes, registration | Yes | Yes | Yes, templates, themes, CSS, ... | Yes |
| 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 |
| SMW+ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes Templates, skins, css, special wikipages (forms) | Yes (old page becomes a redirect) |
| 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 |
| TigerWiki | No | No, to be coded | Yes, password protection | No | Partial - style-sheets, template | No |
| Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Yes | Yes, CAPTCHA for registration and anonymous edits or comments, encrypted email addresses.[7] | Yes | Yes | themes, user CSS, modules | Yes |
| Traction TeamPage | Yes, with WebDAV versioning | Yes, CAPTCHA for registration, block lists | Yes | Yes Safe | Yes, workspace templates, color templates, and developer tools | Yes, links are updated automatically and name history maintained |
| TWiki | Yes | Yes[8] | 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 |
| Wikispaces | Yes | Yes, CAPTCHA | Yes | Yes | Yes, themes, HTML, CSS | Yes |
| 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 |
Features (continued) edit
| Wiki software | WYSIWYG editing | Web feeds | Extensibility | Cross-wiki support | Wiki farms | Outliner Mechanism[9] | Other features |
|---|
| BrainKeeper | Yes | Yes, RSS | No | No | No | Yes | [10] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Desktop | Yes | Yes, RSS | [11] | ||||
| codeBeamer | Yes with TinyMCE or Microsoft Word | No | Yes, Java Plug-ins | [12] | |||
| Confluence | Yes | Yes, RSS | Java Plug-ins, User Macros in Apache Velocity | [13] | |||
| coWiki | ? | Yes, RSS [2] | plugins via an OOP interface | [14] | |||
| MindTouch | Yes | Yes, RSS, XML, JSON | API, Service Oriented Architecture | [15] | |||
| DokuWiki | No Quickbuttons and a preview mode exist however | Yes, RSS/Atom [3] | Yes, Plugin API | Yes | No | Yes | Look at the Website[16] |
| EditMe | Yes | Yes, RSS | Yes, Modules, embedded JavaScript API | No | [17] | ||
| FlexWiki | No | Yes, RSS | ASP, WikiTalk, .Net Reflection plugins | Forms, Scripting, Integrated Weblog and Threaded Message Forum | |||
| Foswiki | Yes, pre-installed plugin | Yes, RSS/Atom, with search string | 400+ extensions; Plugin API for developers; Foswiki markup/scripting for users to create wiki applications | Yes, user selectable wiki syntax with EditSyntaxPlugin | [18] | ||
| Gitit | Yes | No Markdown and other lightweight markup languages | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| IBM Connections | Yes | Yes, RSS/Atom | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Tagging, Discussions, Notifications (mail or in product), Reports, CMS, Templating |
| UseModWiki | No? | Yes | extensions | ||||
| WYSIWYG editing | Web feeds | Extensibility | Cross-wiki support | Wiki farms | Outliner Mechanism | Other features | |
| JAMWiki | Partial, optional editing buttons | Yes, RSS | Plugin wiki syntax parser (default is Mediawiki syntax) | ||||
| Jive SBS | Yes | Yes | Yes, both functionality and theme via plugins | No | |||
| JotSpot | Yes | Yes, RSS, per page | plugins, server-side Javascript | [19] | |||
| MediaWiki | Partial, via extensions | Yes, RSS/Atom | actions, handlers | Yes | [20] | ||
| 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 | [21] | ||
| MojoMojo | Yes, With live preview | Yes, RSS | Yes, plugins and custom additions types | Yes, Multiple markup parsers available | [22] | ||
| OddMuseWiki | Yes, plugin | Yes | plugins | Yes | [23] | ||
| PBworks | Yes | Yes, RSS/Atom | API, AuthAPI, plugins, wikilets | [24] | |||
| PhpWiki | Yes, module | Yes RSS/Atom/RDF: global, per page or per user | plugins | support all databases | |||
| PmWiki | No. GUI buttons and Preview mode exist however[25] | Yes RSS/Atom/RDF (option): global, per namespace, per page or per watchlist; feed readers (plugins) | very, 500+ plugins and configuration recipes | WikiCreole (option), Markdown (plugin)[26] | Yes | [27] | |
| ProjectForum | Yes | Yes, RSS/Atom | Yes | No | Yes | ||
| Qontext | Yes | Yes, RSS | No | No | — | No | [28] |
| SamePage | Yes | Yes, RSS feeds, | plugins | ||||
| SharePoint Foundation | Yes | Yes, RSS feeds | 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 | Yes Themes, WebParts, API | Yes (limited) | Yes | Yes | Forms(InfoPath), Lists, CMS, Weblog, Tagging, Discussions, Notifications, Reports, Enterprise level security, Workflow, Enterprise Search |
| SMW+ | Yes | Yes, via Data Import | Yes, special purpose extensions | [29] | |||
| Socialtext | Yes | Yes, RSS feeds, Google/Technorati search results | using REST/SOAP APIs | [30] | |||
| WYSIWYG editing | Web feeds | Extensibility | Cross-wiki support | Wiki farms | Outliner Mechanism | Other features | |
| Swiki | No | Some | [31] | ||||
| ThoughtFarmer | Yes | Yes | Plugins, API used by ThoughtFarmer Professional Services | [32] | |||
| TiddlyWiki | Yes, with FCKeditor or other plugin | Yes, RSS | plugins | [33] | |||
| TigerWiki | No | Yes, RSS with plugin | Code modification | [34] | |||
| Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Yes, with FCKeditor or via Quicktag insertion | Yes, RSS/Atom/RDF | Hundreds of features, plugins, modules & mods | No | [35] | ||
| Traction TeamPage | Yes | Yes, Dynamic RSS inbound / outbound | Plug-in architecture for widgets, forms, interface and function modifications | [36] | |||
| 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 | [37] | ||
| UseModWiki | No? | Yes | extensions | ||||
| WackoWiki | No, Has toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts to create WikiMarkup, see: WikiEdit | Yes, RSS | actions, handlers | [38] | |||
| Wikispaces | Yes | Yes, RSS/Atom | API, widgets, single sign-on (SSO) | [39] | |||
| Wikiwig | Yes, Xinha | No | Some | ||||
| WikkaWiki | No | Yes, Single page/Comments/Global | Yes, plugins, actions, handlers, menulets | [40] | |||
| XWiki | Yes, using a custom powerful GWT-based editor | Yes, RSS | Yes, component, plugins, macros, scripts, applications | Yes, based on WikiModel, support syntaxes from other wikis | Yes | No | [41] |
| ZWiki | Yes, using Epoz | Yes, RSS/Atom | all Zope plugins, LaTeX, and more | [42] |
Installation edit
| | This table possibly contains original research. (December 2009) |
| Wiki software | Platform | Web-server required | Other software required | Installable to USB stick |
|---|
| BrainKeeper | NA - hosted | None | NA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Desktop | NA - hosted | None | None | |
| codeBeamer | Any OS that supports Java 1.5 and servlet 2.4 | Tomcat included, or use your own servlet container. | Java 1.5 | |
| Confluence | Any OS that supports Java 1.4 and servlet 2.4 | Tomcat included, or use your own servlet container. | Java 1.4 | |
| coWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Apache with PHP | MySQL, PHP | |
| MindTouch | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Apache, IIS6, IIS7, IIS8 | Mono, MySQl, PHP | |
| DokuWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Should work on any web server with PHP | PHP | Yes |
| FlexWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | IIS/Apache | ASP.Net/Mono | |
| Foswiki | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Any Web-server with cgi support. | Perl, RCS | Yes |
| Gitit | Cross platform | Yes. Happstack; can also be used locally. | LaTeX; Versioning system like Git, Darcs, or Mercurial | No |
| IBM Connections | Linux (RHEL & SLES), Unix (AIX), Windows[43] | 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 |
| JAMWiki | Any OS that supports Java 1.5 and servlet 2.4 | Any servlet 2.4-compliant application server | Java 1.5 | |
| Jive SBS | 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 5.1+ | MySQL, PHP5 | |
| Midgard Wiki | Linux, Unix & others | Apache with PHP | MySQL, PHP | |
| MoinMoin | Linux, Macs, Unix, Windows & others | None for Desktop version | Python | Yes |
| MojoMojo | Linux, Macs, Unix, Windows, others | None - builtin server suitable for desktop or production use | SQL database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite) | |
| OddMuseWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Any web server with cgi support | Perl | |
| 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 |
| ProjectForum | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux | None (built-in) | None | Yes |
| Qontext | SAAS[44] | 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 | |
| SMW+ | Linux Unix Windows & others | Apache or IIS with PHP 5.0+ | MySQL PHP5 | |
| 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 |
| TigerWiki | Linux, Unix & others | Any Web-server with PHP | PHP | |
| Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Any Web-server with PHP[45] | PHP | Yes |
| Traction TeamPage | Any OS capable of running Java 2 Virtual Machine | None (Built-In) | None | |
| TWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Any Web-server with cgi support. Web-server included in VMware appliance and TWiki for MS-Windows Personal | Perl, RCS | |
| UseModWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Any web server with cgi support | Perl | |
| WackoWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Apache v1.3.x (v2 recommended), IIS | MySQL, PHP | |
| Wikispaces | SaaS - hosted | None | None | |
| Wikiwig | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Any with PHP | MySQL, PHP | |
| WikkaWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Any Web-server with PHP | MySQL/PHP | |
| XWiki | Java Platform | Any Java EE webserver | Java | Yes |
| ZWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows & others | Zope | Python (included with most Zope installs) |
References edit
- ^ 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).
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ IP address blacklist, content by regular expressions, excessive activities, scripted registration prevention (plugin), hidden e-mail addresses
- ^ word/URL block (addon, auto-upd. database), URL-approval (option), encrypt e-mails (addon), nofollow, Captcha (addon)
- ^ Shulman, Eric. "AttachFilePluginInfo". TiddlyTools. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
- ^ Documentation about Spam Protection for Tiki
- ^ IP address blacklist, content by regular expressions, excessive activities, scripted registration prevention (plugin), hidden e-mail addresses
- ^ HTML/XHTML with nested markup, or XOXO with collapsing or folding outlines
- ^ Calendars, Discussions, Spreadsheets, Templates
- ^ Block architecture, Calendars, Discussions, Database feature, Tasks and Milestones Blocks available
- ^ Enterprise level security, Integration with Issue Tracker / Document Manager / Continuous Integration, Open API, Tagging, E-Mail Notifications, Commercial support
- ^ Enterprise level security, Simple admin interface, Open Plug-in API, Tagging, E-Mail Notifications, Fully supported
- ^ Data saved hierarchic (web trees) and in XML, per-page threaded comments, comfortable installation wizard
- ^ Highly usable, stores in XML, SOA, API, enterprise arch and business focused, fully supported by MindTouch company website
- ^ Section Editing, XHTML-Compliant, nice tables, side-by-side diff, namespaces, Interwiki
- ^ Embedded server-side JavaScript, forums, blogs, security groups and policies, side-by-side diff, auto-generated navigation
- ^ 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.
- ^ Support for server-side Javascript, VMware virtual appliance
- ^ Per-article discussion page, watchlist, searching, email notification (built in, but currently disabled on Wikipedia)
- ^ Enterprise level security, authentication, and authorization, Email notification, additional desktop edition, XML-RPC content synchronization, searching in attachments (v1.6+).
- ^ Hierarchical node structure and cascading permissions system allows for stewardship of topics. Version control and ability to do 3-way merge on conflict.
- ^ very easily extensible, themeable, easy setup of wiki farms
- ^ 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.
- ^ JavaScript GUI buttons/Edit Toolbar for most frequently used wiki markup codes (customizable).
- ^ The PmWiki markup rules are easily modifiable and replaceable by plug-ins, should a need for another wikimarkup family be demonstrated.
- ^ Highly sophisticated support for customization. Practically cameleon-like
- ^ Enterprise level security, authentication, and authorization, Email notification,Discussions,Tagging,WYSIWYG-like editor,Social tagging,minimal setup, cross-browser support
- ^ Extensive semantic features: ellaborate toolbox and GUIs for the easy authoring, retrieval, navigation and organization of semantic data. Collaborative ontology management and semantic data integration (integrate external heterogeneous data silos). Fine grained access rights to (non-)semantic data and content.
- ^ accessible through REST/SOAP APIs
- ^ 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.
- ^ Structured wiki, granular access controls, faceted browsing, revision control, full text search, email notification, photo albums
- ^ Single file, minimal setup, cross-browser
- ^ All minimal features that a wiki needs
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ WYSIWYG-like editor, ACLs, subpages, comments, files, email notification, cloning of pages, installation wizard...
- ^ Discussion pages, tagging, email notification, full-text search, user dashboard, localization
- ^ FreeMind support, ACLs, cloning of pages, advanced syntax highlighting using GeSHi, on-the-fly downloading of codeblocks
- ^ 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
- ^ hierarchical pages, revision control, fulltext search, email notification, issue tracker, LaTeX integration
- ^ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27012786&S_CMP=rnav Detailed system requirements for IBM Connections
- ^ Qontext is a cloud based applicationReference site
- ^ Tiki Requirements
See also edit
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Lists of:
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External links edit
- Wiki.org, What Is Wiki - general Wiki info.
- WikiMatrix.org - Comparison of wikis and features selected by the user.
- Wiki Affordances - Examination of the five key affordances that all modern, fully developed wikis share.
