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Comparison of wiki software
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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 |
Cost (USD) |
Software licence[1] |
Open source |
Encoding |
Multilingual |
Programming language |
Data backend |
| wiki, WikiWikiWeb |
Ward Cunningham |
1995 |
? |
? |
Apple HyperCards. |
see QuickWiki |
? |
? |
? |
? |
Perl |
? |
| ArtificialMemory |
ArtificialMemory Semantic Wiki |
02003-04-01 April 1, 2003 |
|
02007-10-01 October 1, 2007 |
N/A |
[2] |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
? |
ASP.NET/C# |
SQL Server |
| Axosoft OnTime |
Axosoft |
02007-10-01 October 1, 2007 |
|
02007-12-05 December 5, 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 April 19, 2006 |
|
02007-01-15 January 15, 2007 |
N/A |
[3] |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
Supports Multilingual Content |
J2EE/Java |
RDBMS |
| BusinessWiki |
Divante, Inc. |
02007-01-05 January 5, 2007 |
|
|
MediaWiki |
[4] |
GPL |
Yes |
UTF-8 |
Yes |
PHP, C# on MONO |
MySQL |
| Central Desktop |
Central Desktop Inc. |
02005-10-01 October 01, 2005 |
Winter Release '07 |
02007-11-12 November 12, 2007 |
N/A |
[5] |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
? |
PHP |
PostgreSQL |
| Clearspace |
Jive Software |
02007-01-07 January 7, 2007 |
1.10 |
02007-12-27 December 27, 2007 |
N/A |
[6] |
Proprietary |
No |
ISO8859-1, UTF-8, … |
?
(supports i18n) |
J2EE/Java |
SQL/LDAP [7] |
| Confluence |
Atlassian Software Systems |
02004-05-12 May 12, 2004 |
2.9 |
02008-08-07 August 7, 2008 |
N/A |
[8] |
[9] |
No |
? |
? |
Java, Java EE |
RDB[10] |
| Corendal Wiki |
Thierry Danard |
02005-05-14 May 14, 2005 |
|
02007-02-12 February 12, 2007 |
N/A |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
Java |
MySQL or Oracle |
| coWiki |
Daniel T. Gorski; Paul Hanchett |
02002-03 March 2002 |
0.3.4[11] |
02005-02-24 February 24, 2005 |
N/A |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
PHP5 |
MySQL |
|
MindTouch Deki
|
MindTouch, OpenGarden.org |
02006-07-25 July 25, 2006 |
8.05.1 |
02008-05-20 May 20, 2008 |
MediaWiki |
[12] |
GPL, LGPL |
Yes |
UTF-8 |
Yes |
PHP, C# on MONO |
MySQL |
| DidiWiki |
Matthew Allum |
? |
0.5 |
02004-09-30 September 30, 2004 |
N/A |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
C |
File system |
| DokuWiki |
Andreas Gohr |
02004-07 July 2004 |
02008-05-05 May 5, 2008 |
02008-05-05 May 5, 2008 |
|
Free |
GPL v2 |
Yes |
UTF-8 |
Yes |
PHP |
File system |
| EditMe |
EditMe, LLC |
02002-08-01 August 1, 2002 |
2007.06.25 |
02007-06-25 June 25, 2007 |
N/A |
From $5/mo |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
? |
Java (Hosted) |
MySQL |
| FlexWiki |
David Ornstein |
? |
2.0 |
02008-02-02 February 2, 2008 |
N/A |
Free |
CPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
ASP.NET, C# |
File system, SQL Server |
| GroupSwim Collaboration |
TN20 |
02007-09-23 September 23, 2007 |
5.0 |
02007-09-23 September 23, 2007 |
N/A |
[13] |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
? |
Java |
MySQL |
| Instiki |
David Heinemeier Hansson |
? |
0.13.0 |
02008-03-17 March 17, 2008 |
N/A |
Free |
Ruby License[14] |
? |
? |
? |
Ruby |
Active Record |
| IpbWiki |
GlobalSoft |
02006-02-25 February 25, 2006 |
1.7.1 |
02007-09-25 September 25, 2007 |
N/A |
[15] |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
? |
PHP |
MySql, SQL Server or Oracle |
| JAMWiki |
Various |
02006-06-30 June 30, 2006 |
0.6.6 |
02008-09-28 September 28, 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 July 24, 2006 |
N/A |
From $100/mo |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
? |
Java |
File system, XML |
| JSPWiki |
Janne Jalkanen |
02001-07-06 July 6, 2001 |
2.4.100 |
02007-03-02 March 2, 2007 |
N/A |
Free |
LGPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
Java |
Flat-file, RCS, SVN |
| Kanopia |
Kanopia, Inc. |
02007-08-01 August 1, 2007 |
0.1 |
02007-08-01 August 1, 2007 |
N/A |
Free |
GPL v2 |
Yes |
? |
? |
PHP |
MySQL, PostgreSQL |
| Kerika |
Kerika, Inc. |
02005-05-01 May 1, 2005 |
1.1 |
02007-08-01 August 1, 2007 |
N/A |
[16] |
Proprietary |
No |
? |
? |
Java |
Object-oriented database |
| MediaWiki |
Wikimedia Foundation |
02002-01-25 January 25, 2002 |
1.13.1 |
02008-09-06 September 6, 2008 |
N/A |
Free |
GPL v2 |
Yes |
UTF-8 |
Yes |
PHP |
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite |
| Midgard Wiki |
Henri Bergius |
02004-09-29 September 29, 2004 |
1.8.3 |
02007-04-25 April 25, 2007 |
N/A |
Free |
LGPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
PHP |
MySQL and RCS |
| MoinMoin |
Jurgen Hermann; Thomas Waldmann; ... |
02000-07-28 July 28, 2000 |
1.7.2 |
02008-09-09 September 09, 2008 |
PikiPiki |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
UTF-8 |
Yes |
Python |
Flat-file |
| Near-Time |
Near-Time, Inc. |
02005-11-20 November 20, 2005 |
2007.28.0 |
02007-06-27 June 27, 2007 |
N/A |
[17] |
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 March 19, 2002 |
N/A |
Free |
? |
? |
? |
? |
ASP, VBScript |
MS Access and SQL Server |
| OpenLink Wiki |
|
|
|
|
? |
Free |
GPL and Commercial License |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
| PAUX |
|
|
|
|
|
From €300/mo |
[18] |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
| PicoWiki |
Paul Klipp |
02008-05-20 May 20, 2008 |
02008-06-22 June 22, 2008 |
02008-05-20 May 20, 2008 |
|
Free |
Proprietary |
No |
UTF-8 |
No |
PHP |
MySQL |
| PBwiki |
David Weekly |
02005-05-30 May 30, 2005 |
|
|
TipiWiki |
[19] |
Proprietary |
No |
UTF-8 |
? |
PHP |
MogileFS, Squid, MySQL, Pound, lighttpd |
| Perspective |
Alan Slater |
02004-03 March 2004 |
0.922 |
02007-02-06 February 6, 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 July 1, 2007 |
WikiWikiWeb |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
PHP |
Berkeley DB, Flat-file, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle 8, Firebird |
| PmWiki |
Patrick Michaud |
02002-02-06 February 6, 2002 |
2.1.27 |
02006-12-11 December 11, 2006 |
N/A |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
ISO8859-1, UTF-8 |
Yes |
PHP |
Flat-file. MySQL, SQLite (plug-ins) |
| QwikiWiki |
|
|
|
02008-02-01 February 1, 2008 |
N/A |
Free |
BSD License |
Yes |
ISO8859-1, UTF-8 |
? |
PHP |
Flat-file |
| ScrewTurn Wiki |
ScrewTurn Software |
? |
2.0.22 |
02008-01-03 January 03, 2008 |
N/A |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
Yes |
ASP.NET, C# |
MySql, SQL Server or flat-file |
| Socialtext |
Socialtext |
2003 |
2.9.5.2 |
02007-06 June 2007 |
2.9.5.1 |
[20] |
[21] |
? |
No |
? |
Perl |
PostgreSQL |
| 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 December 6, 2005 |
N/A |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
Squeak |
File system |
| Sycamore |
Philip Neustrom |
02006-05 May 2006 |
1.0 |
02006-05-17 May 17, 2006 |
MoinMoin |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
Python |
PostgreSQL |
| ThoughtFarmer |
ThoughtFarmer |
02006-05 May 2006 |
2.5.1 |
02008-02-06 February 6, 2008 |
N/A |
$109/user |
Proprietary |
No |
UTF-8 |
? |
ASP.NET, C# |
SQL Server |
| TiddlyWiki |
Jeremy Ruston |
02004-09 September 2004 |
2.4.1 |
02008-08-04 August 4, 2008 |
N/A |
Free |
BSD |
Yes |
? |
? |
JavaScript |
Single file, MySQL (mod) |
| TigerWiki |
Chabel.org |
02005-07 July 2005 |
2.19 |
02006-11-02 November 02, 2006 |
roWiki |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
PHP |
File system |
| TikiWiki CMS/Groupware |
Luis Argerich (200+ devs nowadays) |
02002-10-09 October 9, 2002 |
2.1 |
02008-09-23 September 23, 2008 |
N/A |
Free |
LGPL |
Yes |
UTF-8 |
Yes |
PHP |
MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle via ADOdb |
| Traction TeamPage |
Traction Software |
01999-12-01 December 1, 1999 |
4.0 |
02008-06-02 June 2, 2008 |
N/A |
[22] |
Proprietary |
No |
UTF-8, … |
Supports multi-lingual content
(and supports i18n) |
J2SE/Java |
Flat File and File System / WebDAV for Attachments |
| TWiki |
Peter Thoeny |
01998-10 October 1998 |
4.2.2 |
02008-08-11 August 11, 2008 |
JosWiki |
[23] |
GPL |
Yes |
ISO8859-1, UTF-8 |
Yes |
Perl |
Flat-file, RCS, pluggable storage backend |
| UseModWiki |
Clifford Adams |
02000-01-22 January 22, 2000 |
1.0 |
02003-09-12 September 12, 2003 |
AtisWiki |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
Perl |
Flat-file |
| WackoWiki |
Roman Ivanov |
02003-03 March 2003 |
R4.2 |
02005-03-27 March 27, 2005 |
WakkaWiki |
Free |
BSD |
Yes |
? |
Yes |
PHP |
MySQL |
| Wiclear |
David Jobet |
02004-06-25 June 25, 2004 |
0.10 |
02006-03-26 March 26, 2006 |
N/A |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
PHP |
MySQL |
| Wikiwig |
Steve Goldman (Formerly Starcrouz) |
02004-07-20 July 20, 2004 |
R5.01 |
02008-05-28 May 28, 2008 |
Wikiwig 4.x |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
Yes |
PHP |
MySQL |
| WikkaWiki |
Wikka Development Team |
02004-05-16 May 16, 2004 |
1.1.6.5 |
02008-06-24 June 24, 2008 |
WakkaWiki |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
ISO8859-1 |
No |
PHP |
MySQL |
| WikkiTikkiTavi |
Tavi |
? |
0.26 |
? |
N/A |
Free |
GPL |
Yes |
? |
? |
PHP |
MySQL |
| XWiki |
Ludovic Dubost |
02004-02 February 2004 |
1.5.2 |
02008-09-17 September 17, 2008 |
TWiki |
Free |
GPL/LGPL |
Yes |
UTF-8 |
Yes |
Java |
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Apache Derby, HSQLDB |
| ZWiki |
Simon Michael |
01999-11-05 November 5, 1999 |
0.60.0 |
02007-09-15 September 15, 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 |
Target audience
Features 1
|
File uploading / attachments |
Spam prevention |
Page access control[24] |
Inline HTML[25] |
User-customizable interface[26] |
Document renaming |
| ArtificialMemory |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Axosoft OnTime |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| BrainKeeper |
Yes |
Yes, CAPTCHA |
No |
Yes |
Yes[27] |
Yes |
| BusinessWiki |
Yes |
Yes, CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes, templates and themes, html and css |
Yes, links are updated |
| 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 |
|
MindTouch Deki
|
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 |
| GroupSwim Collaboration |
Yes |
Yes, blacklist, CAPTCHA |
Yes |
Yes |
Partial - preset skins |
Yes |
| Instiki |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Partial - CSS |
No |
|
File uploading / attachments |
Spam prevention |
Page access control[24] |
Inline HTML[25] |
User-customizable interface[26] |
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)[28] |
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 |
| 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 |
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