Comparison of wiki software

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The following tables compare general and technical information for many wiki software packages.

General information

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

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! Wiki software

! Creator

! First public release date

! Latest stable release

! Stable release date

! Predecessor

! Software license

! Programming language

! Data backend

| | BlueSpice

| Hallo Welt! GmbH

| MediaWiki

| GPLv3

| PHP

| MariaDB, MySQL

| | BookStack

| Dan Brown

| MIT

| PHP

| MariaDB, MySQL

| | Central Desktop

| Central Desktop Inc.

| 2.0

| PHP

| PostgreSQL

| |CLiki2

|Andrey Moskvitin, Vladimir Sedach, Anastasiya Sterh

|0.4.4

|28 May 2005

|CLiki

|AGPL v3

|Common Lisp

| | Confluence

| Atlassian

| ;

| Java, Java EE

| MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL

| | ConnectedText

| Eduardo Mauro

| 6.0.15

| C++

| SQL

| | DokuWiki

| Andreas Gohr

| GPL v2

| PHP

| File system

| | FlexWiki

| David Ornstein

| 2.1.0.274

| CPL

| ASP.NET, C#

| File system, Microsoft SQL Server

| | Foswiki

| Foswiki community

| TWiki

| GPL

| Perl

| Flat-file database, RCS, or a variety of databases as plugins

| | Gollum

| Tom Preston-Werner, Rick Olson, Dawa Ometto, Bart Kamphorst, and community

| |

| MIT

| Ruby

| Git

| | IBM Connections

| IBM

| Java, Java EE

| IBM Db2, MS SQL Server, or Oracle

| | Ikiwiki

| Joey Hess et al.

| GNU General Public License v2 +

| standard version control system such as Git or Subversion or 6+ others

| | Jive

| Jive Software

| Java EE, Java

| SQL, LDAP

| | JotSpot

| JotSpot (now Google Sites)

| 2.0

| Java

| File system, XML

| | MediaWiki

| Magnus Manske, then Lee Daniel Crocker

| ;

| UseModWiki

| GPL v2

| PHP

| MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite

| | Midgard Wiki

| Henri Bergius

| 10.05.6

| LGPL

| PHP

| MySQL and RCS

| | MindTouch

| MindTouch Inc.

| 10.1.4

| MediaWiki

| PHP, C# on Windows or Mono

| MySQL

| | MoinMoin

| Jürgen Hermann, Thomas Waldmann, others

| ;

| PikiPiki

| GPL

| Python

| Flat-file database

| | MojoMojo

| Marcus Ramberg & community

| 1.12

| Perl

| PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, others

| | MyInfo

| Milenix Software Ltd.

| 7.1

| C++

| | Notion

|Notion Labs Inc.

|2.0.41

|2023-02-28

| | Obsidian

| Dynalist Inc.

|1.3.5

|2023-06-01

| JavaScript

| Markdown, File system

| | PBworks

| David Weekly

| TipiWiki

| PHP

| MogileFS, Squid, MySQL, Pound, lighttpd

| | PhpWiki

| Steve Wainstead, Reini Urban, Marc-Etienne Vargenau, others

| 1.6.6

| WikiWikiWeb

| GPL

| PHP

| Flat-file database, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite

| | PmWiki

| Patrick Michaud

| GPL

| PHP

| Flat-file database. SQLite (plug-in)

| | PukiWiki

| Yuji Oda, then Puki Development Team

| ;

| GPL v2

| PHP

| Flat-file

| | SharePoint

| Microsoft

| ASP.NET, C#

| Microsoft SQL Server or Windows Internal Database

| | Semantic MediaWiki

| Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandečić and others

| ;

| GPL v2

| PHP

| MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite and several Triplestores

| | Socialtext

| Socialtext

| 7.5

| Dual (CPAL) and Proprietary)

| Perl

| PostgreSQL

| | Swiki

| Mark Guzdial; Jochen Rick

| 1.5

| GPL

| Squeak

| File system

| | TiddlyWiki

| Jeremy Ruston

| BSD

| Wikitext, JavaScript

| HTML file

| | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

| Luis Argerich (200+ devs nowadays)

| LGPL

| PHP

| MariaDB, MySQL

| | Trac

| Edgewall Software

| 1.4.3

| BSD

| Python

| MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

| | Traction TeamPage

| Traction Software

| 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

| JosWiki

| GPL

| Perl

| Flat-file database, RCS, pluggable storage backend

| | UseModWiki

| Clifford Adams

| 1.2.3

| AtisWiki

| GPL

| Perl

| Flat-file database

| | Whizfolders

| AvniTech

| 7.1

| Delphi

| File system

| | Wiki.js

|Nicolas Giard

| Affero GPL v3

| JavaScript

| PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, or SQLite

! | Wiki Server

| Apple Inc.

|5.6.3

|2018-09-18

| Ruby on Rails

| PostgreSQL

! | Wikispaces

| Tangient LLC

| PHP

| MySQL, MogileFS

! | WikiWikiWeb

| Ward Cunningham

| WikiWikiHyperCard

| Perl

| File system

| | XWiki

| Ludovic Dubost

| LGPL

| Java

| HSQLDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL

| | Zim

| Jaap Karssenberg

| GPL

| Python

| File system

|-class="sortbottom"

! Wiki software

! Creator

! First public release date

! Latest stable release

! Stable release date

! Predecessor

! Software license

! | Midgard Wiki

! | MindTouch

! | MoinMoin

! | MojoMojo

! | MyInfo

! | Notion

! | Obsidian

! | PBworks

! | PhpWiki

! | PmWiki

! | SamePage

! | SharePoint Foundation

! | SharePoint Server

! | Semantic MediaWiki

! | Socialtext

! | Swiki

! | TiddlyWiki

! | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

! | Trac

! | Traction TeamPage

! | TWiki

! | UseModWiki

! | Whizfolders

! | Wiki.js

! | Wikispaces

! | XWiki

! | Zim

|-class="sortbottom"

! Wiki software

! Public

! Private

! Corporate, enterprise

! Education

! Intranet

! Personal

! Scientific, technical, mathematical

Features 1

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! Wiki software

! File uploading, attachments

! Spam prevention

! Page access control

! Inline HTML

! User-customizable interface

! Document renaming

! | BlueSpice

| , templates and themes, html and css

! | BookStack

| , CSS

! | Central Desktop

| , CAPTCHA

| , templates and themes, html and css

! | ConnectedText

| , templates and themes + CSS

| , links to renamed document are also renamed

! | Confluence

| , CAPTCHA

| , templates and themes + CSS

| , links are updated

! | DokuWiki

| , blacklist

| , optional

| , templates, CSS, PHP; heavily documented PHP API

| , plugin

! | FlexWiki

| , blacklist, CAPTCHA, nofollow

| , plugin

| : CSS, templates, WikiTalk

| , old page becomes a redirect

! | Foswiki

| templates, skins, user CSS

| , fixing backlinks

! | Gitit

| , reCAPTCHA

| : templates, CSS

| , old page becomes a redirect

! | Gollum

| : can disable editing, further control customizable via Rack

| , templates and themes, html and css

| , old page becomes a redirect

! | IBM Connections

| , only in private modus

| , not default

| : templates, CSS, and/or product modification

! | Jive

| , extensive permissions API

| , scheduled for 3.0

! | JotSpot

| , optional

| : CSS

! | MediaWiki

| , URL blacklist, word blacklist, IP address blocking, CAPTCHAs

| : very limited read access control

| : many features are user-customizable, templates

| , old page becomes a redirect

! | Midgard Wiki

| : templates, CSS

! |MindTouch

! | MoinMoin

| , BadContent filtering via Regular Expressions, Textchas

| , very flexible ACLs, wiki-editable groups

| : safe

| : themes, templates, CSS, XSLT, user editable navigation

| , old page can be a redirect

! | MojoMojo

| , CAPTCHA

| , cascading ACL control allowing stewardship of topics

| : safe

| : themes, CSS

| , current: page redirect, soon: Node moving

! | MyInfo

| , web site export customization

| , links to renamed document are also renamed

! | Notion

! | Obsidian

| , templates and themes, HTML, CSS

! | PBworks

| : passwords, SSO-capable integration, ACLs, IP address white–black listing

| , and plugins

| Partial: CSS

! | PhpWiki

| , CPAN Blog::SpamAssassin

| plugin

| themes; undocumented

! | PmWiki

| , multiple

| , per page, per namespace, per action, per user groups (option)

| , module

| , themes, per page or group CSS, more

| , page with redirect (module), uploads (module)

! | SamePage

! | Semantic MediaWiki

| , URL blacklist, word blacklist, IP address blocking, CAPTCHAs

| : very limited read access control

| : Yes, templates and themes, html and css

| , old page becomes a redirect

! | SharePoint Foundation

! | SharePoint Server

! | Socialtext

! | Swiki

| , block IP addresses, words, UserIDs

| For AniAniWebs, CSS

| , updating all backlinks

! | TiddlyWiki

| , plugin

| , intended for personal use only

| , themes, user CSS, modules

! | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

| , CAPTCHA for registration and anonymous edits or comments, encrypted email addresses.

| themes, user CSS, modules

! | Trac

| , templates and themes, html and css

! | Traction TeamPage

| , with WebDAV versioning

| , CAPTCHA for registration, block lists

| safe

| , workspace templates, color templates, and developer tools

| , links are updated automatically and name history maintained

! | TWiki

! Automatic TOC

! Other features

! | BlueSpice

| , RSS

| , see MediaWiki

! | BookStack

| , Markdown

! | Central Desktop

| , RSS

! | Confluence

| , RSS

| , web UI

| , Java plug-ins, user macros in Apache Velocity

| Marketplace Apps, Encryption in Cloud version

! | ConnectedText

| , RSS

| , many options for export, fewer options for import

| , scripting of pages using Python and other programming languages

! | DokuWiki

| , plugin available

| , RSS/Atom

| , to xml, text, html pages, LaTeX, Open doc format, pdf with plugins

| , plugin API

|Section Editing, XHTML-Compliant, tables, side-by-side diff, namespaces, Interwiki

! | FlexWiki

| , RSS

| ASP, WikiTalk, .NET Reflection plugins

| Forms, scripting, integrated weblog, threaded message forum

! | Foswiki

| , pre-installed plugin

| , RSS/Atom, with search string

| 400+ extensions; Plugin API for developers; Foswiki markup/scripting for users to create wiki applications

| , user selectable wiki syntax with EditSyntaxPlugin

! | Gitit

| Markdown and other lightweight markup languages

| via pandoc

| Custom Macros

! | Gollum

| : Uses ACE editor with a preview pane

| , RSS

| : uses text-based markup languages

| : with third-party software

| Section Editing, Multiple Markup Languages, RTL Languages, UML Diagrams, YAML frontmatter

! | IBM Connections

| , RSS, Atom

| Tagging, Discussions, Notifications (mail or in product), Reports, CMS, Templating

! | Jive

| , both functionality and theme via plugins

! | JotSpot

| , RSS, per page

| plugins, server-side Javascript

! | MediaWiki

| , bundled extension (VisualEditor)

| , RSS/Atom

| (web UI, web API, shell) [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Import/Export]

| actions, handlers

| MediaWiki syntax

| Visual editor, extensions via PHP modules, collaboration

! | Midgard Wiki

| , RSS, all changes

| PHP component architecture

| CMS integration

! | MindTouch

| , RSS, XML, JSON

| API, Service Oriented Architecture

! | MoinMoin

| , v1.5+

| , RSS, last changes

| different plugin types

| , selectable parsers

! | MojoMojo

| , With live preview

| , RSS

| , plugins and custom additions types

| , Multiple markup parsers available

! | MyInfo

| , to html, rtf, txt, web site, PDF via print driver

| , import and export plugins API

| Tagging, metadata, attachments

! | Obsidian

| , to Markdown, PDF, and Pandoc

| , plugin API, 1000+ plugins and themes

| , via Obsidian Publish

| , via plugins

| Graph, Infinite canvas, tagging, metadata, attachments

! | PBworks

| , RSS/Atom

| API, AuthAPI, plugins, wikilets

! | PhpWiki

| , module

| RSS/Atom/RDF: global, per page or per user

| plugins

| Creole

| support all databases

! | PmWiki

| , Addon

| , RSS/Atom/RDF (option): global, per namespace, per page or per watchlist; feed readers (plugins)

| , modules

| , very, 500+ plugins and configuration recipes

| , Creole (option), Markdown (plugin)

| Section editing, section toggle (modules)

| , Modules

| PageVariables and PageLists, blogs (addons), picture galleries (addons), embed maps/videos (addons). Highly flexible ACLs.

! | SamePage

| , RSS feeds,

| plugins

! | Semantic MediaWiki

| , bundled extension (VisualEditor)

| , RSS/Atom

| (RDF, JSON, CSV and other "result formats". Web UI, web API, shell) [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Import/Export]

| actions, handlers

| MediaWiki syntax

| Internal query language, visual editor, extensions via PHP modules, collaboration

! | SharePoint Foundation

| , RSS feeds

| : themes, WebParts, API

| (limited)

| Lists, CMS, weblog, tagging, discussion notifications, reports, workflow, enterprise level security

! | SharePoint Server

| , RSS feeds

| : themes, WebParts, API

| (limited)

| Forms(InfoPath), Lists, CMS, Weblog, Tagging, Discussions, Notifications, Reports, Enterprise level security, Workflow, Enterprise Search

! | Socialtext

| , RSS feeds, Google/Technorati search results

| using REST/SOAP APIs

! | Swiki

| Some

! | TiddlyWiki

| , with FCKeditor or other plugin

| , RSS

| plugins, macros, themes, css

| Creole

! | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

| , with FCKeditor or via Quicktag insertion

| , RSS/Atom/RDF

| Hundreds of features, plugins, modules & mods

| (e.g. Siteground)

! | Trac

| with plugin

| , RSS

| with plugins

| limited

| ticket system, access source code repositories (git, mercurial, more), other features via plugins

! | Traction TeamPage

| , Dynamic RSS inbound, outbound

| Plug-in architecture for widgets, forms, interface and function modifications

! | TWiki

| , pre-installed plugin

| , RSS/Atom, with search string

| 400+ extensions; Plugin API for developers; TWiki markup/scripting for users to create wiki applications

| , user selectable wiki syntax with EditSyntaxPlugin

| , if "%TOC%" shortcut added to page

! | UseModWiki

| , RSS

| , unofficial patches only

| , if <toc> is added with # added to headings

! | Whizfolders

| , markup

| Rich Text, RTF export, clipboard collect, Print with TOC

! | Wiki.js

|Markdown

| Built-in search

! | Wikispaces

| , RSS/Atom

| API, widgets, single sign-on (SSO)

! | XWiki

| , using CKEditor and various plugins developed for it

| , RSS

| , XAR (zipped XWiki ARchive) files

| , component, plugins, macros, scripts, applications

| , based on WikiModel, support syntaxes from other wikis

| , using the <nowiki></nowiki> macro

|-class="sortbottom"

! style="width: 12em" | Wiki software

! WYSIWYG editing

! Web feeds

! Export, import

! Extensibility

! Selectable wiki syntax

! Wiki farms

! Outliner mechanism

! Automatic TOC

! Other features

Installation

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! Wiki software

! Platform

! Typical installation size (MB)

! Web server needed

! Other software needed

! Installable to USB stick

! | BlueSpice

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| IIS–Apache, Tomcat

| MySQL, Oracle

! | BookStack

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| PHP-compatible webserver

| PHP 8.0.2+, MySQL or MariaDB, Git, Composer

! | Central Desktop

| : hosted

! | Confluence

| Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Oracle Solaris

| Tomcat included, or use your own servlet container.

| Java 1.8, database such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.

| IBM HTTP Server (Apache clone with specific IBM Tuning possibilities) or any other WebServer which can couple with WebSphere.

| All software needed is delivered as one package

! | 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

| (built-in)

| VMware Player

! | MediaWiki

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| web server that supports PHP 7.4.3+

| PHP; one of MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

! | 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

| for Desktop version

| Python

! | MojoMojo

| Linux, Macs, Unix, Windows, others

| : builtin server suitable for desktop or production use

| SQL database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite)

! | MyInfo

| Microsoft Windows

! | Obsidian

| macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android

! | PhpWiki

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| Web server with PHP

| PHP

! | PmWiki

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| 8

| Web server with PHP, can run without a web server.

| PHP

! | Semantic MediaWiki

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| web server that supports PHP 7.4.3+

| PHP; one of MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite

! | SharePoint Foundation

| Windows Server

| IIS

| Optional SQL Server

! | SharePoint Server

| Windows Server or SaaS

| IIS or SaaS

| Optional SQL Server

! | Socialtext

| : hosted

| , all needed components included

! | Swiki

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| : installs own server; can coexist with IIS and Apache by running on alternate port

! | TiddlyWiki

| (that runs common browsers)

| Runs in regular browser

! | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| Web server with PHP

| PHP

! | Trac

| Linux, Windows

| Recommended (fcgi or wsgi), builtin available

| SQL database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite)

! | Traction TeamPage

| OS capable of running Java 2 Virtual Machine

| Jetty (included with installer)

! | TWiki

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| Web server with cgi support. Web server included in VMware appliance and TWiki for MS-Windows Personal

| Perl, RCS

! | UseModWiki

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| web server with cgi support

| Perl

! | Whizfolders

| Microsoft Windows

! | Wiki.js

| Linux, Unix, Windows, others

| (built-in): Can coexist with Apache, Nginx, IIS via alternate port

| PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL or SQLite3

! | Wikispaces

| SaaS: hosted

! | XWiki

| Java Platform

| Java EE webserver

| Java

| on Jetty/HSQL

|-class="sortbottom"

! Wiki software

! Platform

! Typical installation size (MB)

! Web server needed

! Other software needed

! Installable to USB stick

Comparison of wiki software

General information

Features 1

Installation

See also

Footnotes