Comparison of wiki software

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki
software packages.
Contents
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1 General information
o 1.1 Notes
2 Target audience
3 Features 1
4 Features 2
5 Installation
6 Note
7 Footnotes
8 See also
9 External links

General information[edit]
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information. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly
available information. (April 2014)

Creator

Fir
st
pu
bli
c
rel
ea
se
da
te

BlueSpic
Hallo Welt! 31
e for
Medienwerks March
MediaW
tatt GmbH
2011
iki

BrainKe
eper

BrainKeeper,
Inc.

1
Septe
mber

Late
st
stabl
e
relea
se

2.22.2

Sta
ble
rel
ea
se
da
te

Pred
ecess
or

Soft
ware
licen
se[1]

Op
en
so
ur
ce

8 May MediaWi
2014[2]
ki

GPL v2

Yes

1
March
2010

Propriet
ary

No

Enc
odi
ng

UTF-8

Multi
lingu
al

Progr
ammi
ng
langu
age

Data backend

Yes

PHP

MySQL

Yes

Java/Java
EE

MySQL

Creator

Fir
st
pu
bli
c
rel
ea
se
da
te

Late
st
stabl
e
relea
se

Sta
ble
rel
ea
se
da
te

Pred
ecess
or

Soft
ware
licen
se[1]

Op
en
so
ur
ce

Enc
odi
ng

Multi
lingu
al

Progr
ammi
ng
langu
age

Data backend

2005

Central
Desktop

Central
Desktop Inc.

1
Octob
er
2005

2.0

22
Febru
ary
2010

Propriet
ary

No

Conflue
nce

Atlassian
Software
Systems

25
March
2004

5.1

27
March
2013

Propriet
ary

No[3]

UTF-8

Yes

DokuWi
ki

Andreas Gohr

July
2004

201405-05[4]

5 May
2014

GPL v2

Yes

UTF-8

Yes

PHP

File system

EditMe

Matt Wiseley

August
2003

Propriet
ary

No

ISO885
9-1

No

Java

MySQL

April
2014

LGPL

Yes

UTF-8

Yes

Java

PostgreSQL,MySQL
, Oracle, Apache
Derby, HSQLDB

20
Septe
2.1.0.27 Octob
mber
4
er
2004
2008

CPL

Yes

ASP.NET,
C#

File
system,Microsoft
SQL Server

GPL

Yes

Perl

Flat-file, RCS,
pluggable storage
backend[5]

eXo
eXo Platform
Platform

FlexWiki

David
Ornstein

Foswiki

Foswiki
community

2002

Dece
mber
2008

4.0

1.1.8

1
March
2013

TWiki

PHP

ISO885
91,UTF-8

Yes

PostgreSQL

DB2, MS SQL
Java, Java
Server,MySQL,Ora
EE
cle, orPostgreSQL

Gitit

IBM
Connecti
ons

Creator

Fir
st
pu
bli
c
rel
ea
se
da
te

John
MacFarlane
and
community

7
Nove 0.10.3.1[
6]
mber
2008

19
Mar
2013

GPL

Yes

UTF-8

Yes

Haskell

Git, now
alsoDarcs,Mercuri
al

27
June
2007

26
June
2013

Propriet
ary

No

UTF-8

Yes

Java/Java
EE

DB2, MS SQL
Server orOracle

Yes

Perl[12]

standardversion
control
system[13]such
as Git orSubversio
n or 6+ others[14]

Yes

Java
EE/Java

SQL/LDAP[15]

IBM

Joey Hess et
al.[7]

Jive

7
Jive Software Januar
y 2007

JotSpot

JotSpot (now
Google Sites)

JSPWiki

https://jspwik
2001
i.apache.org/

Magnus
Manske

4.5 CR1

Sta
ble
rel
ea
se
da
te

29
3.20120 25 July
April
725[9][10] 2012
2006[8]

Ikiwiki

MediaW
iki

Late
st
stabl
e
relea
se

Octob
er
2004

25
Januar

Pred
ecess
or

Soft
ware
licen
se[1]

Op
en
so
ur
ce

Enc
odi
ng

GNU
General
Public Yes[11]
License v
2 +[11]

ISO885
91,UTF8, ...

Multi
lingu
al

Progr
ammi
ng
langu
age

Data backend

5.0.3

25
April
2012

Propriet
ary

No

2.0

24 July
2006

Propriet
ary

No

Java

File system,XML

2.10.1

29
May
2014

Apache
license

Yes

Java

File system,XML

GPL v2

Yes

PHP

MySQL,PostgreSQL
,SQLite, and others

1.23.1

25
June
2014[16

UTF-8

Yes

Creator

Fir
st
pu
bli
c
rel
ea
se
da
te

Late
st
stabl
e
relea
se

Altova

6 May
2012

Pred
ecess
or

1.0

6 May
2012

29
6
Midgard
Septe 10.05.6[1
Henri Bergius
March
7]
Wiki
mber
2012
2004

MindTo
uch

MoinMo
in

MojoMo
jo

Data backend

PHP

MySQL andRCS

No

UTF-8

Yes

PHP, C# o
n
Windows
or Mono

MySQL

Yes

UTF-8

Yes

Python

Flat-file

Yes

UTF-8

Yes

Perl

PostgreSQL,SQLite,
MySQL, others

Propriet
ary

No

UTF-8

PHP

MogileFS,Squid,My
SQL,Pound,lighttp
d

GPL

Yes

ISO885
9-

1.9.7

17
March
2013

1.09

25
Januar
y 2013

30
May
2005

Dece
mber

Progr
ammi
ng
langu
age

Yes

Jrgen
Hermann; 28 July
Thomas
2000
Waldmann; ...

Steve
Wainstead, ...

Multi
lingu
al

LGPL

10.1.4

29
August
2007

Enc
odi
ng

No

22
MediaWi Propriet
Januar
ki
ary
y 2013

Marcus
Ramberg &
community

Op
en
so
ur
ce

Propriet
ary

25 July
2006

MindTouch
Inc.

PBworks David Weekly

PhpWiki

Soft
ware
licen
se[1]

y 2002

MetaTe
am

Sta
ble
rel
ea
se
da
te

PikiPiki

TipiWiki

1.5.0[18]

29 July WikiWiki
2014
Web

GPL

UTF-8

Yes

Yes

Online service

PHP

Berkeley DB,Flatfile,MySQL,Postgre
SQL,Microsoft SQL

Creator

Fir
st
pu
bli
c
rel
ea
se
da
te

Late
st
stabl
e
relea
se

Sta
ble
rel
ea
se
da
te

Pred
ecess
or

Soft
ware
licen
se[1]

Op
en
so
ur
ce

1999

Patrick
Michaud

6
Febru
ary
2002

Qontext

Enc
odi
ng

Multi
lingu
al

Progr
ammi
ng
langu
age

1,UTF-8

Data backend

Server, Oracle 8,
Firebird

2.2.62

28
Febru
ary
2014

GPL

Yes

ISO885
91,UTF-8

Yes

PHP

Flat-file. MySQL,
SQLite (plug-ins)

Qontext, Inc

6
Nove
mber
2010

0.144.1

12
Dece
mber
2010

Propriet
ary

No

UTF-8

Yes

Java

Amazon Cloud

SharePoi
nt

Microsoft

March
2001

2010

22
April
2010

Propriet
ary

No

UTF-8

Yes

SlimWiki

SlimWiki

July
2014

2014

2014

Propriet
ary

No

UTF-8

Yes

5.0.0

28
Septe
mber
2011

Dual
(CPAL)
andProp
rietary)

1.5

6
Dece
mber
2005

PmWiki

Socialte
xt

Swiki

Socialtext

2003

Mark Guzdial;
Jochen Rick

Octob
er
1999

3.0

N/A

GPL

UTF-8

Yes

Microsoft SQL
ASP.NET,
Server orWindows
C#
Internal Database

Ruby

PostgreSQL

Perl

PostgreSQL

Squeak

File system

Creator

Fir
st
pu
bli
c
rel
ea
se
da
te

Thought ThoughtFarm
Farmer
er

May
2006

TiddlyWi
ki

Septe
mber
2004

Late
st
stabl
e
relea
se

Sta
ble
rel
ea
se
da
te

Pred
ecess
or

Soft
ware
licen
se[1]

Op
en
so
ur
ce

Enc
odi
ng

Multi
lingu
al

Progr
ammi
ng
langu
age

Data backend

5.5

4 June
2012

Propriet
ary

No

UTF-8

Yes

ASP.NET,
C#

2.6.5

6
Octob
er
2011

BSD

Yes

UTF-8

Yes

JavaScrip Single file, MySQL

t
(mod)

Tiki Wiki
9
22
Luis Argerich
CMS
Octob
May
(200+ devs
12.2 LTS
Groupw
er
2014[19
nowadays)
]
are
2002

LGPL

Yes

UTF-8

Yes

Propriet
ary

No

Supports
multilingual
UTF-8,
content
...
(and
supports
i18n)

ISO885
91,UTF-8

Traction
TeamPa
ge

TWiki

UseMod
Wiki

Jeremy
Ruston

Traction
Software

1
Dece
mber
1999

6.0

2 June
2014

Octob
Peter Thoeny
er
1998

6.0.0

14
Octob
er
2013

JosWiki

GPL

Yes

22
Januar
y 2000

1.0.5

28
August AtisWiki
2009

GPL

Yes

Clifford
Adams

Yes

Microsoft SQL
Server

PHP

MySQL

Java
SE/Java

Flat File and File

System
Oracle 10G RDB
option
WebDAV for
Attachments

Perl

Flat-file, RCS,
pluggable storage
backend[5]

Perl

Flat-file

Creator

Fir
st
pu
bli
c
rel
ea
se
da
te

Wacko
Wiki

Roman Ivanov

March
2003

Wagn

Grass
Commons

April
2006

Wiki on
a Stick[20]

legolas558,
pvhl

16
Dece
mber
2005

Wiki
Server

Apple Inc.

Wikispa
ces

Late
st
stabl
e
relea
se

Sta
ble
rel
ea
se
da
te

Pred
ecess
or

Wikiwig

WikiWik
iWeb

Ward
Cunningham

20 July
2004

1995

Op
en
so
ur
ce

5.4.0

17
WakkaW
April
iki
2014

BSD

Yes

1.12.0

11
Septe
mber
2013

GPL

Yes

0.13

15
Febru
ary
2014

GPL

Yes

Propriet
ary

No

Propriet
ary

No

GPL

Yes

Instiki

18
Tangient LLC March
2005

Steve
Goldman
(Formerly
Starcrouz)

Soft
ware
licen
se[1]

5.01

29
May
2008

Wikiwig
4.x

WikiWiki
in
HyperCa
rd[21]

Enc
odi
ng

Multi
lingu
al

Progr
ammi
ng
langu
age

Data backend

Yes

PHP

MySQL

UTF-8

Yes

Ruby

MySQL,PostgreSQL

UTF-8

Yes

JavaScrip
t

Single file, wsif

format

UTF-8

Yes

PHP

MySQL,MogileFS

Yes

PHP

MySQL

Perl

File System

Creator

Wikka
WikkaW
Development
iki
Team

Fir
st
pu
bli
c
rel
ea
se
da
te

16
May
2004

Late
st
stabl
e
relea
se

Sta
ble
rel
ea
se
da
te

Pred
ecess
or

Soft
ware
licen
se[1]

Op
en
so
ur
ce

Enc
odi
ng

Multi
lingu
al

Progr
ammi
ng
langu
age

Data backend

1.3.3

20
WakkaW
May
iki
2012

GPL

Yes

ISO885
9-1

Yes

PHP

MySQL

6.2.4

10
Nove
mber
2014

LGPL

Yes

UTF-8

Yes

Java

PostgreSQL,MySQL
, Oracle, Apache
Derby, HSQLDB

0.61.0

28
Octob
er
2008

GPL

Yes

UTF-8

Yes

Python

ZODB - Zope
Object Database

XWiki

Ludovic
Dubost

Febru
ary
2004

ZWiki

Simon
Michael

5
Nove
mber
1999

Creator

First
Latest Stable
Softwar Open
Program
public
Predece
Encodi Multilin
stable releas
e
sourc
ming
releas
ssor
ng
gual
release e date
license[1]
e
language
e date

TWiki

Data backend

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