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JavaScript-based

* Lively Wiki is based on
Lively Kernel The Lively Kernel is an open-source web programming environment. It supports desktop-style applications with rich graphics and direct manipulation abilities, but without the installation or upgrade troubles of conventional desktop applications. D ...
and combines features of wikis and development environments. Users can create and edit application behavior and other content. *
TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki is a personal wiki and a non-linear notebook for organising and sharing complex information. It is an open-source single page application wiki in the form of a single HTML file that includes CSS, JavaScript, embedded files such as im ...
is a
HTML The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...
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JavaScript JavaScript (), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of Website, websites use JavaScript on the Client (computing), client side ...
-based server-less wiki in which the entire site/wiki is contained in a single file, or as a
Node.js Node.js is an open-source server environment. Node.js is cross-platform and runs on Windows, Linux, Unix, and macOS. Node.js is a back-end JavaScript runtime environment. Node.js runs on the V8 JavaScript Engine and executes JavaScript code ou ...
-based wiki application. It is designed for maximum customization possibilities. *
Wiki.js Wiki.js is a wiki engine running on Node.js and written in JavaScript. It is free software released under the Affero GNU General Public License. It is available as a self-hosted solution or using "single-click" install on the DigitalOcean and A ...
is an open-source, Node.js-based wiki application using git as the back end storage mechanism and automatically syncs with any git repository. It provides a visual Markdown editor with assets management, authentication system and a built-in search engine.


Java-based

* XWiki is a free wiki software platform written in Java with a design emphasis on extensibility. XWiki is an enterprise wiki engine with a complete wiki feature set (version control, attachments, etc.) and a
database engine A database engine (or storage engine) is the underlying software component that a database management system (DBMS) uses to create, read, update and delete (CRUD) data from a database. Most database management systems include their own application ...
and programming language which allows database driven applications to be created using the wiki interface. * JSPWiki is the
Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the A ...
's wiki engine, written on the standard Java server-side web platform
Jakarta EE Jakarta EE, formerly Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), is a set of specifications, extending Java SE with specifications for enterprise features such as distributed computing and web serv ...
(formerly "Java EE"), a major component of which is JSP—
Jakarta Server Pages Jakarta Server Pages (JSP; formerly JavaServer Pages) is a collection of technologies that helps software developers create dynamically generated web pages based on HTML, XML, SOAP, or other document types. Released in 1999 by Sun Microsystems, J ...
(formerly "Java Server Pages").


Perl-based

* Foswiki is a structured wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform,
knowledge Knowledge can be defined as awareness of facts or as practical skills, and may also refer to familiarity with objects or situations. Knowledge of facts, also called propositional knowledge, is often defined as true belief that is distinc ...
or document management system a knowledge based, or team portal. is a structured wiki, which enables users to create "wiki applications". *
ikiwiki ikiwiki is a free and open-source wiki application, designed by Joey Hess. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. ikiwiki is written in Perl, although external plugins can be implemented in any langu ...
, a "wiki compiler" - can use
Subversion Subversion () refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place are contradicted or reversed in an attempt to transform the established social order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy, and social norms. Sub ...
or git as the back end storage mechanism. ikiwiki converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. * TWiki is a flexible, powerful, secure, simple Enterprise wiki and application platform. is a structured wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool. Also available as a VMware appliance. *
UseModWiki UseModWiki is a wiki software written in Perl and licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Wikipedias in English and many other languages were powered by Use ...
is a wiki software written in Perl and licensed under
General Public License The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general us ...
. Created by Clifford Adams in 2000, it is a clone of AtisWiki. * WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki and its associated software.


PHP-based

* BookStack is released under the MIT License. It uses the ideas of books to organize pages and store information. *
DokuWiki DokuWiki is a wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in the PHP programming language. It works on plain text files and thus does not need a database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki. It is often recommended as a more ...
is a wiki application licensed under GPLv2 and written in PHP. It is aimed at the documentation needs of a small company. DokuWiki was built for small companies and organizations that need a simple way to manage information, build knowledge bases and collaborate. It uses plain text files and has a simple but powerful syntax which ensures the datafiles remain readable outside the wiki. * MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software package written in PHP. It serves as the platform for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. MediaWiki is used for projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. It is also publicly available for use in other wikis, and has widespread popularity among smaller, non-Wikimedia wikis. MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It was developed for use on Wikipedia in 2002, and given the name "MediaWiki" in 2003. ** Semantic MediaWiki lets you store and query data within the wiki's pages like a database. It is also designed to ease and combine collaborative authoring within a wiki with
semantic technology The ultimate goal of semantic technology is to help machines understand data. To enable the encoding of semantics with the data, well-known technologies are RDF (Resource Description Framework) and OWL (Web Ontology Language). These technologies f ...
. ** BlueSpice MediaWiki extends MediaWiki in usability, quality management, process support, administration, editing and security. *
MindTouch MindTouch was an American multinational technology company headquartered in San Diego, California that designed, developed, and sold SaaS computer software and online services. MindTouch was founded by Aaron Fulkerson and Steve Bjorg in 2005. In J ...
is an application that began as a fork of MediaWiki; it has a C# back-end and a PHP front-end. *
PhpWiki PhpWiki is a web-based wiki software application. It began as a clone of WikiWikiWeb and was the first wiki written in PHP. PhpWiki has been used to edit and format paper books for publication. History The first version, by Steve Wainstead, was re ...
is a WikiWikiWeb clone in PHP. *
PmWiki PmWiki is wiki softwareWikiMatrix / PmWiki Features - Compare Them All
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is a PHP-based wiki. Features include: GPL-licensed, easy installation/customization, designed for collaborative authoring and maintenance of web sites, and support for internationalization. Does not require a database. * Tiny-Wiki is a PHP code documentation wiki engine based on a directory structure. Page contents are handled using Markdown or alternatively custom
Markup language Markup language refers to a text-encoding system consisting of a set of symbols inserted in a text document to control its structure, formatting, or the relationship between its parts. Markup is often used to control the display of the document ...
. It is database-free, has a modern interface, and aims to be as simple to use as possible.


Python-based

* LocalWiki is a wiki engine based on Django, with mapping features and a WYSIWYG editor. The LocalWiki project was founded by DavisWiki creators Mike Ivanov and Philip Neustrom and is a 501 nonprofit organization based in San Francisco. * MoinMoin is a wiki engine written in Python. * Zwiki is a Zope-based GPL wiki engine. It can integrate with the content management framework Plone, and supports several kinds of markup and WYSIWYG HTML editing. * Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects.


Ruby-based

* Gollum uses git as the backend storage mechanism. It is written mostly in Ruby and was originally used as GitHub's wiki system.


Other languages

* Cliki is written in
Common Lisp Common Lisp (CL) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard document ''ANSI INCITS 226-1994 (S20018)'' (formerly ''X3.226-1994 (R1999)''). The Common Lisp HyperSpec, a hyperlinked HTML version, has been derived fro ...
. *
FlexWiki The history of wikis began in 1994, when Ward Cunningham gave the name "WikiWikiWeb" to the knowledge base, which ran on his company's website at c2.com, and the wiki software that powered it. The wiki went public in March 1995, the date used ...
is written in C#, uses the
.NET Framework The .NET Framework (pronounced as "''dot net"'') is a proprietary software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It was the predominant implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) until bein ...
, and stores data in files or Microsoft SQL Server. Development stopped in 2009. *
Gitit Gitit may refer to: * Gitit, Bik'at HaYarden, Israeli settlement on the West Bank * Gittith A gittith ( he, גתית) is a musical term of uncertain meaning found in the Bible, most likely referring to a type of musical instrument. Mention in the ...
is a Happstack-based wiki server in Haskell employing git or
Darcs Darcs is a distributed version control system created by David Roundy. Key features include the ability to choose which changes to accept from other repositories, interaction with either other local (on-disk) repositories or remote repositories via ...
to manage wiki history, and the Pandoc document conversion system to manage markup - among other things permitting the inclusion of LaTeX mathematical markup. * Swiki is written in Squeak. It runs on common platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, and others. * Wiki Server is proprietary software distributed with Mac OS X Server.


Personal wiki software

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ConnectedText ConnectedText (also abbreviated as CT) is a personal wiki which runs on Windows. Articles are written in plain text in CT's own markup language. When viewing articles they are styled by a standard HTML CSS file. The markup language contains man ...
is a commercial Windows-based personal wiki system with features including full text searches, visual link tree, customizable interface, image and file control, CSS-based page display, exports to HTML and HTML Help, and plug-ins. *
Journler Journler was an open-source hybrid diary and personal information manager for Macintosh. It featured a three-pane interface and supported tagging and categorizing of entries. The entries could be rich text, but also could contain images, PDFs, an ...
was a free, open-source personal information manager with personal wiki features for OS X. *
MyInfo MyInfo is a personal information manager developed by Milenix Software. MyInfo collects, organizes, edit, stores, and retrieves personal-reference information like text documents, web snippets, e-mails, notes, and files from other applications. La ...
is a commercial, Windows-based personal information manager with wiki features. *
TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki is a personal wiki and a non-linear notebook for organising and sharing complex information. It is an open-source single page application wiki in the form of a single HTML file that includes CSS, JavaScript, embedded files such as im ...
is a free, open-source personal use (single-machine) wiki based on HTML/JavaScript for any browser and OS. It supports customization and a wide range of add-ons. *
WhizFolders WhizFolders is an organizer and outliner for managing notes on Microsoft Windows. WhizFolders has been around since 1998 but is now discontinued. Its predecessor WhizNote, a plain text notes organizer, was released in CompuServe forums in 1993. ...
is a commercial Windows-based personal wiki software with rich text wiki items that support inserting links to other wiki items or external files. * Zim is a free, open-source standalone wiki based on Python and GTK with a WYSIWYG editor.


Hosted-only software

* Knowledge Plaza is a knowledge management tool that provides both wiki environments for collaborative topic/project work and an
enterprise bookmarking Enterprise bookmarking is a method for Web 2.0 users to tag, organize, store, and search bookmarks of both web pages on the Internet and data resources stored in a distributed database or fileserver. This is done collectively and collaboratively i ...
tool. *
Nuclino Nuclino is a cloud-based team collaboration software which allows teams to collaborate and share information in real time. It was founded in Munich, Germany in 2015. Some notable features include a WYSIWYG collaborative real-time editor and a visu ...
is a real-time wiki for team collaboration.


Content management and social software with wiki functionality


Java-based

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ConcourseConnect Concursive, until October 2007 named Centric CRM, is a software company located in Norfolk, Virginia that offers the ConcourseSuite product, a customer relationship management application, and ConcourseConnect, a social software application, both ...
is a freely available J2EE application made by
Concursive Concursive, until October 2007 named Centric CRM, is a software company located in Norfolk, Virginia that offers the ConcourseSuite product, a customer relationship management application, and ConcourseConnect, a social software application, both ...
which brings together Corporate
Social Networking A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for an ...
, Online Community, Business directory, and Customer relationship management capabilities. Features include wiki, blog, document management, ratings, reviews, online classified advertising, and project management modules. The wiki allows both wiki markup and WYSIWYG editing. *
Confluence In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main stem); o ...
is a commercial J2EE application which combines wiki and some blog functionality. Its features include PDF page export and page refactoring, and it can be run on any application server using any RDBMS backend. * IBM Connections is an
Enterprise Social Software Enterprise social software (also known as or regarded as a major component of Enterprise 2.0), comprises social software as used in "enterprise" (business/commercial) contexts. It includes social and networked modifications to corporate intranets a ...
made by IBM which combines Wikis, Blogs, Files, Forums, Microblogging, Social Analytics, and document management. * Jive (formerly known as Clearspace, Jive SBS and Jive Engage) is a commercial J2EE application, made by Jive Software, which combines wiki, blog and document management functionality. Jive uses WYSIWYG editing, and includes workflow management. * Liferay is an open source enterprise portal project with a built-in web content management and web application framework. Core portlets offer a great number of functionalities, including Wiki (both Creole and MediaWiki syntax). *
Mindquarry Mindquarry is an open source collaborative software geared towards small and medium-sized workgroups. Mindquarry attempts to strike a balance between features and ease-of-use. The application offers four tightly integrated modules: Teams, Files, ...
creates a WYSIWYG wiki for each team. It is built using Apache Cocoon and thus based on Java (Mozilla Public License) *
Traction TeamPage Traction TeamPage is a proprietary enterprise 2.0 social software product developed by Traction Software Inc. of Providence, Rhode Island. TeamPage is one of the first products in the enterprise blog and wiki market, with Traction release 1.0 sh ...
is a commercial enterprise wiki also incorporating blog, project management, document management, discussion and tagging capabilities. The wiki has a draft moderation capability allowing administrators to indicate who can read published vs. draft versions, and who can publish vs. author and edit. The dynamic view architecture allows for easy organization of pages and to collect any set of pages for view, email or export. It is based on the principles of
Douglas Engelbart Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly ...
's
On-Line System NLS, or the "oN-Line System", was a revolutionary computer collaboration system developed in the 1960s. Designed by Douglas Engelbart and implemented by researchers at the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at the Stanford Research Institute (S ...
(NLS) which aggregates multiple blog/wiki spaces using a sophisticated permission and inline comment model. * XWiki includes the standard wiki functionality as well as WYSIWYG editing, OpenDocument based document import/export, semantic annotations and tagging, and advanced permissions management.


Perl-based

* Socialtext is an Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that produces enterprise social software, enterprise wiki and weblog engine partially derived from open-source Kwiki. Socialtext is available as a hosted service, or a dedicated hardware appliance.


PHP-based

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Drupal Drupal () is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal provides an open-source back-end framework for at least 14% of the top 10,000 websites worldwide ...
installations can be configured as wikis with MediaWiki-style wiki markup. *
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware or simply Tiki, originally known as TikiWiki, is a free and open source Wiki-based content management system and online office suite written primarily in PHP and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LG ...
is one of the larger and more ambitious wiki development projects, including a variety of additional groupware features (message forums, articles, etc.).


Other languages

* Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office. Launched in 2001, SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly configurable and its usage varies substantially among organizations. It has built-in wiki support. It is built on
ASP.NET ASP.NET is an open-source, server-side web-application framework designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. It was developed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, applications and services. The name stan ...
, C# language and Microsoft SQL Server. * Telligent, A Verint Company is an enterprise collaboration and community software business founded in 2004 by Rob Howard. The company changed its name to Zimbra, Inc in September 2013 after completing the acquisition of Zimbra from VMWare. In August 2015 Zimbra's Telligent business was acquired by
Verint Systems Verint Systems is a Melville, New York-based analytics company which was founded in 2002. The company sells software and hardware products for customer engagement management and business intelligence. Their products are designed to assist clien ...
.


Project management software with wiki functionality

* Altova MetaTeam integrates a wiki and glossary with project management, collaborative decision-making and team performance management * Code Co-op is a distributed revision control system with wiki functionality. * Fossil is a distributed revision control system that integrates a distributed wiki capability, written in C. * Redmine is a project management web application. * Trac integrates simple issue tracking and an interface to Subversion.


See also

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Comparison of wiki software The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki software packages. General information Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development. Target audience Features 1 Featur ...
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History of wikis The history of wikis began in 1994, when Ward Cunningham gave the name "WikiWikiWeb" to the knowledge base, which ran on his company's website at c2.com, and the wiki software that powered it. The wiki went public in March 1995, the date used ...
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Personal wiki A personal wiki is wiki software that allows individual users to organize information on their desktop or mobile computing devices in a manner similar to community wikis, but without collaborative software or multiple users. Personal wiki softwa ...


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