Comparison of wiki software

Software to run a collaborative wiki compared

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

## General information

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

Wiki software  | Creator  | First public release date  | Latest stable release  | Stable release date  | Predecessor  | Software license[1] | Open source  | Multilingual  | Programming language  | Data backend

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BlueSpice | Hallo Welt! GmbH  | 31 March 2011 | 4.4.1 [2] | 2024-02-15[±] | MediaWiki | GPLv3 | Yes  | Yes  | PHP | MariaDB, MySQL[3]
BookStack | Dan Brown  | 12 July 2015 | 24.12.14[4]  | 2025-01-04; 6 months ago  |  | MIT | Yes  | Yes  | PHP | MariaDB, MySQL[5]
Central Desktop | Central Desktop Inc.  | 1 October 2005 | 2.0  | 2010-02-22  |  | Proprietary | No  |  | PHP | PostgreSQL
CLiki2 | Andrey Moskvitin, Vladimir Sedach, Anastasiya Sterh  | 30 November 2003 |  |  | CLiki  | AGPL v3  | Yes[6] |  | Common Lisp |
Confluence | Atlassian | 25 March 2004 | 8.5.2[7] | 2023-10-04; 21 months ago  |  | Proprietary | No[8] | Yes  | Java, Java EE | MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, or PostgreSQL[9]
ConnectedText | Eduardo Mauro  | 2005 | 6.0.15  | 2015-06-26  |  | Proprietary | No  | Yes  | C++ | SQL
DokuWiki | Andreas Gohr  | July 2004 | 2025-05-14[10]  | 2025-05-14; 17 months ago  |  | GPL v2 | Yes  | Yes  | PHP | File system
FlexWiki | David Ornstein  | September 2004 | 2.1.0.274  | 2008-10-20  |  | CPL | Yes  |  | ASP.NET, C# | File system, Microsoft SQL Server
Foswiki | Foswiki community  | December 2008 | 2.1.9[11] | 2024-12-18[±] | TWiki  | GPL | Yes  | Yes  | Perl | Flat-file database, RCS, or a variety of databases as plugins[12]
Gollum | Tom Preston-Werner, Rick Olson, Dawa Ometto, Bart Kamphorst, and community  | 16 February 2009 | 6.1.0[13]  | 2024-12-23; 6 months ago  |  | MIT | Yes  | Yes  | Ruby | Git
IBM Connections | IBM | 27 June 2007 | 6 CR5[14] | 2019-05-30[±] |  | Proprietary | No  | Yes  | Java, Java EE | IBM Db2, MS SQL Server, or Oracle
Ikiwiki | Joey Hess et al.[15] | 29 April 2006[16] | 3.20250221[17] | 2025-02-21[±] |  | GNU General Public License v2 +[18] | Yes[18] | Yes  | Perl[19] | standard version control system[20] such as Git or Subversion or 6+ others[21]
Jive | Jive Software | 7 January 2007 | 9.0.7.1[22] | 2019-03-20[±] |  | Proprietary | No  | Yes  | Java EE, Java | SQL, LDAP[23]
JotSpot | JotSpot (now Google Sites)  | October 2004 | 2.0  | 24 July 2006 |  | Proprietary | No  |  | Java | File system, XML
MediaWiki | Magnus Manske, then Lee Daniel Crocker | 25 January 2002 | 1.44.0[24]  | 2025-07-02; 13 days ago  | UseModWiki | GPL v2  | Yes  | Yes  | PHP | MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite[25]
Midgard Wiki | Henri Bergius  | 29 September 2004 | 10.05.6[26] | 2012-03-06  |  | LGPL | Yes  |  | PHP | MySQL and RCS
MindTouch | MindTouch Inc.  | 25 July 2006 | 10.1.4  | 2013-01-22  | MediaWiki | Proprietary | No  | Yes  | PHP, C# on Windows or Mono | MySQL
MoinMoin | Jürgen Hermann, Thomas Waldmann, others  | 28 July 2000 | 1.9.11[27]  | 2020-11-08; 4 years ago  | PikiPiki  | GPL | Yes  | Yes  | Python | Flat-file database
MojoMojo | Marcus Ramberg & community  | 29 August 2007 | 1.12  | 2017-05-13[28] |  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Perl | PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, others
MyInfo | Milenix Software Ltd.  | October 1999 | 7.1  | 25 May 2021 |  | Proprietary | No  | Yes  | C++ |
Notion | Notion Labs Inc.  | 2016 | 2.0.41[29] | 2023-02-28  |  | Proprietary |  |  |  |
Obsidian | Dynalist Inc.  | 30 March 2020 | 1.3.5[30] | 2023-06-01  |  | Proprietary | No  | Yes  | JavaScript | Markdown, File system
PBworks | David Weekly  | 30 May 2005 |  |  | TipiWiki | Proprietary | No  |  | PHP | MogileFS, Squid, MySQL, Pound, lighttpd
PhpWiki | Steve Wainstead, Reini Urban, Marc-Etienne Vargenau, others  | December 1999 | 1.6.6[31] | 2025-05-05  | WikiWikiWeb | GPL | Yes  | Yes  | PHP | Flat-file database, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite[32]
PmWiki | Patrick Michaud  | 8 January 2002[33] | 2.4.6[34] | 2025-06-15[±] |  | GPL | Yes  | Yes  | PHP | Flat-file database. SQLite (plug-in)
PukiWiki | Yuji Oda, then Puki Development Team  | 15 July 2002 | 1.5.4[35]  | 2022-03-30; 3 years ago  | YukiWiki [ja] | GPL v2  | Yes  | Yes  | PHP | Flat-file
SharePoint | Microsoft | March 2001 | 2019[citation needed] | 2018-10-22[±] |  | Proprietary | No  | Yes  | ASP.NET, C# | Microsoft SQL Server or Windows Internal Database
Semantic MediaWiki | Markus Krötzsch, Denny Vrandečić and others  | 2005 | 2.5.6[36]  | 2018-02-14; 7 years ago  |  | GPL v2  | Yes  | Yes  | PHP | MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite and several Triplestores[37]
Socialtext | Socialtext  | 2003 | 7.5  | 2015 |  | Dual (CPAL) and Proprietary)  |  |  | Perl | PostgreSQL
Swiki | Mark Guzdial; Jochen Rick  | October 1999 | 1.5  | 2005-12-06  |  | GPL | Yes  |  | Squeak | File system
TiddlyWiki | Jeremy Ruston  | September 2004 | 5.3.7[38]  | 2025-07-07; 8 days ago  |  | BSD | Yes  | Yes  | Wikitext, JavaScript | HTML file
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Luis Argerich (200+ devs nowadays)  | 9 October 2002 | 27.1[39]  | 2024-11-23; 7 months ago  |  | LGPL | Yes  | Yes  | PHP | MariaDB, MySQL[40]
Trac | Edgewall Software  | 1 October 2006 | 1.4.3[41] | 9 May 2021 |  | BSD | Yes  | Yes  | Python | MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite[42][43]
Traction TeamPage | Traction Software  | 1 December 1999 | 7.0 (17)[44] | 2025-06-30[±] |  | Proprietary | No  | 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 | 6.1.0[45] | 2018-07-16[±] | JosWiki | GPL | Yes  | Yes  | Perl | Flat-file database, RCS, pluggable storage backend
UseModWiki | Clifford Adams  | 22 January 2000 | 1.2.1  | 2017-12-01  | AtisWiki  | GPL | Yes  |  | Perl | Flat-file database
Whizfolders | AvniTech  | 1999 | 7.1  | 2016-06-09  |  | Proprietary | No  |  | Delphi | File system
Wiki.js | Nicolas Giard  | 28 January 2017 | 2.5.307[46]  | 2025-03-24; 3 months ago  |  | Affero GPL v3 | Yes  | Yes  | JavaScript | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, or SQLite
Wiki Server | Apple Inc. | 26 October 2007 | 5.6.3  | 2018-09-18  |  | Proprietary | No  | Yes  | Ruby on Rails | PostgreSQL
Wikispaces | Tangient LLC  | 18 March 2005 |  |  |  | Proprietary | No  | Yes  | PHP | MySQL, MogileFS
WikiWikiWeb | Ward Cunningham | 1995 |  |  | WikiWikiHyperCard[47] | ?  |  |  | Perl | File system
XWiki | Ludovic Dubost  | February 2004 | 17.5.0[48] | 2025-06-30[±] |  | LGPL | Yes  | Yes  | Java | HSQLDB, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL[49]
Zim | Jaap Karssenberg  | 10 January 2010 | 0.76.3[50]  | 2025-03-28; 3 months ago  |  | GPL | Yes  | Yes  | Python | File system
Wiki software  | Creator  | First public release date  | Latest stable release  | Stable release date  | Predecessor  | Software license[1] | Open source  | Multilingual  | Programming language  | Data backend

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Wiki software  | Public  | Private  | Corporate, enterprise  | Education  | Intranet  | Personal  | Scientific, technical, mathematical

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BlueSpice | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Support for LaTeX math; syntax highlighting
BookStack | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial
Central Desktop | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |
Confluence | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
ConnectedText |  | Yes  |  |  |  | Yes  | Mathematical formulas rendered using LaTeX, directed acyclic graphs rendered with GraphViz
DokuWiki | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Support for LaTeX math; syntax highlighting via plugins
FlexWiki | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  |  |
Foswiki | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | LaTeX & math plugins; full HTML, JavaScript support
Gitit  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Built-in support for LaTeX math; syntax highlighting for code blocks.
Gollum | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Built-in support for MathML and LaTeX math; syntax highlighting for code blocks; citations; annotations
IBM Connections | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Jive | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  |
JotSpot | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  |  |
MediaWiki | Yes  | Yes[51] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Built-in support for LaTeX math; syntax highlighting for code blocks; full HTML, JavaScript support
Midgard Wiki | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  |  |
MindTouch | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |
MoinMoin | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | LaTeX math input via plugin in ParserMarket[52]
MojoMojo | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
MyInfo |  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Yes  |
Notion | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Yes  |
Obsidian | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Support for LaTeX, code blocks, plugins
PBworks | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |
PhpWiki | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Support for LaTeX through a plugin
PmWiki | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | LaTeX–MathML formulas (addons), Mind maps (addon), HTML (addon), syntax highlighting (addons), embed videos/maps (addons)
SamePage | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |
SharePoint Foundation  |  |  | Yes  | Yes  |  |  |
SharePoint Server  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Semantic MediaWiki | Yes  | Yes[53] | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Built-in support for RDF, Semantic Web standards and LaTeX math; syntax highlighting for code blocks; full HTML, JavaScript support
Socialtext | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |
Swiki | Yes  | Yes  |  | Yes  |  |  |
TiddlyWiki |  | Yes  |  |  |  | Yes  | Support for syntax highlighting, embedding images and videos, native JavaScript, LaTeX (using KaTeX plugin) and other plugins
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Support for LaTeX math; syntax highlighting
Trac | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Many plugins available for formulas, graphs, etc.
Traction TeamPage | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |
TWiki | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | LaTeX & math plugins; full HTML, JavaScript support
UseModWiki | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |
Whizfolders |  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Yes  | Pictures and Windows RTF features
Wiki.js | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Syntax highlighting for code blocks; GitHub-flavored Markdown syntax; full HTML; images, videos, documents
Wikispaces | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |
XWiki | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Zim | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  |
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[54] | Inline HTML[55] | User-customizable interface[56] | Document renaming

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BlueSpice | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes, templates and themes, html and css  | Yes
BookStack | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial, CSS  | Yes
Central Desktop | Yes  | Yes, CAPTCHA  | No  | Yes  | Yes, templates and themes, html and css  | No
ConnectedText | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes, templates and themes + CSS | Yes, links to renamed document are also renamed
Confluence | Yes  | Yes, CAPTCHA  | Yes  | optional  | Yes, templates and themes + CSS | Yes, links are updated
DokuWiki | Yes  | Yes, blacklist  | Yes, optional  | Yes, optional  | Yes, templates, CSS, PHP; heavily documented PHP API[57] | Yes, plugin
FlexWiki | Yes  | Yes, blacklist, CAPTCHA, nofollow  | Yes  | Yes, plugin  | Partial: CSS, templates, WikiTalk  | Yes, old page becomes a redirect
Foswiki | Yes  | Yes[58] | Yes  | Yes  | templates, skins, user CSS | Yes, fixing backlinks
Gitit  | Yes  | Yes, reCAPTCHA | Yes  | Yes  | Yes: templates, CSS  | Yes, old page becomes a redirect
Gollum | Yes  | No  | Partial: can disable editing, further control customizable via Rack | Yes  | Yes, templates and themes, html and css  | Yes, old page becomes a redirect
IBM Connections | Yes  | Yes, only in private modus  | No, not default  | Yes  | Yes: templates, CSS, and/or product modification  | Yes
Jive | 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 | Partial: very limited read access control | Yes  | Partial: many features are user-customizable, templates  | Yes, old page becomes a redirect
Midgard Wiki | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Partial: templates, CSS | No
MindTouch | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | optional  | Yes  | Yes
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
MyInfo | Yes  | N/A  | No  | Yes  | Yes, web site export customization  | Yes, links to renamed document are also renamed
Notion |  |  |  |  |  |
Obsidian | Yes  | N/A  | N/A  | Yes  | Yes, templates and themes, HTML, CSS | Yes
PBworks | Yes  | Yes: passwords, SSO-capable integration, ACLs, IP address white–black listing  | Yes  | Yes, and plugins  | Partial: CSS | No
PhpWiki | Yes  | Yes, CPAN Blog::SpamAssassin  | Yes  | plugin  | themes; undocumented  | Yes
PmWiki | Yes  | Yes, multiple[59] | Yes, per page, per namespace, per action, per user groups (option)  | Yes, module  | Yes, themes, per page or group CSS, more  | Yes, page with redirect (module), uploads (module)
SamePage | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Semantic MediaWiki | Yes  | Yes, URL blacklist, word blacklist, IP address blocking, CAPTCHAs | Partial: very limited read access control | Yes  | Yes: Yes, templates and themes, html and css  | Yes, old page becomes a redirect
SharePoint Foundation  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
SharePoint Server  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Socialtext | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Swiki | Yes  | Yes, block IP addresses, words, UserIDs  | Yes  | Yes  | For AniAniWebs, CSS | Yes, updating all backlinks
TiddlyWiki | Yes, plugin[60] | No, intended for personal use only  | No, intended for personal use only  | Yes  | Yes, themes, user CSS, modules  | Yes
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Yes  | Yes, CAPTCHA for registration and anonymous edits or comments, encrypted email addresses.[61] | Yes  | Yes  | themes, user CSS, modules  | Yes
Trac | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes, templates and themes, html and css  | 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[58] | Yes  | Yes  | templates, skins, user CSS | Yes, fixing backlinks
UseModWiki | Yes  | Yes, IP address blacklist  | No  | Yes  | Partial, CSS | Yes, admins only
Wiki.js | Yes  | Yes, ACL  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes, layouts, HTML, CSS  | Yes
XWiki | Yes  | Yes, CAPTCHA, ACL | Yes  | Yes  | Yes, style-sheets, templates, themes, skin extensions  | Yes
Wiki software  | File uploading, attachments  | Spam prevention  | Page access control[54] | Inline HTML[55] | User-customizable interface[56] | Document renaming

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Wiki software  | WYSIWYG editing | Web feeds | Export, import  | Extensibility  | Selectable wiki syntax  | Wiki farms | Outliner mechanism[62] | Automatic TOC | Other features

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BlueSpice | Yes  | Yes, RSS  | Yes, see MediaWiki  | Yes  |  | Yes  |  | Yes  |
BookStack | Yes  | No  | No  | Partial  | Partial, Markdown |  | No  | Yes  |
Central Desktop | Yes  | Yes, RSS  | No  |  |  |  |  |  | [63]
Confluence | Yes  | Yes, RSS  | Partial, web UI[64] | Yes, Java plug-ins, user macros in Apache Velocity | No  |  |  | Yes  | Marketplace Apps,[65] Encryption in Cloud version[66]
ConnectedText | No  | Yes, RSS  | Yes, many options for export, fewer options for import  | Yes, scripting of pages using Python and other programming languages  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | [67]
DokuWiki | Yes, plugin available  | Yes, RSS/Atom[68] | Yes, to xml, text, html pages, LaTeX, Open doc format, pdf with plugins[69] | Yes, plugin API  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[70] | Section Editing, XHTML-Compliant, tables, side-by-side diff, namespaces, Interwiki
FlexWiki | No  | Yes, RSS  | No  | ASP, WikiTalk, .NET Reflection plugins  |  |  |  |  | Forms, scripting, integrated weblog, threaded message forum
Foswiki | Yes, pre-installed plugin  | Yes, RSS/Atom, with search string  | No  | 400+ extensions; Plugin API for developers; Foswiki markup/scripting for users to create wiki applications  | Yes, user selectable wiki syntax with EditSyntaxPlugin  |  |  | Yes  | [71]
Gitit  | Yes  | No Markdown and other lightweight markup languages | Yes via pandoc | Yes Custom Macros  | Yes Custom Macros  | Yes  | Yes  |  |
Gollum | No: Uses ACE editor with a preview pane  | Yes, RSS  | Yes: uses text-based markup languages  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes: with third-party software[72] |  | Yes  | Section Editing, Multiple Markup Languages, RTL Languages, UML Diagrams, YAML frontmatter
IBM Connections | Yes  | Yes, RSS, Atom | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  |  | Tagging, Discussions, Notifications (mail or in product), Reports, CMS, Templating
Jive | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes, both functionality and theme via plugins  | No  |  |  |  |
JotSpot | Yes  | Yes, RSS, per page  | No  | plugins, server-side Javascript  |  |  |  |  | [73]
MediaWiki | Yes, bundled extension (VisualEditor)  | Yes, RSS/Atom  | Yes (web UI, web API, shell) [2] | actions, handlers  | MediaWiki syntax  | Yes  |  | Yes[74] | Visual editor, extensions via PHP modules, collaboration[75]
Midgard Wiki | No  | Yes, RSS, all changes  | No  | PHP component architecture  |  |  |  |  | CMS integration
MindTouch | Yes  | Yes, RSS, XML, JSON  | No  | API, Service Oriented Architecture  |  |  |  |  | [76]
MoinMoin | Yes, v1.5+  | Yes, RSS, last changes  | No  | different plugin types  | Yes, selectable parsers  |  |  |  | [77]
MojoMojo | Yes, With live preview  | Yes, RSS  | No  | Yes, plugins and custom additions types  | Yes, Multiple markup parsers available  |  |  |  | [78]
MyInfo | Yes  | N/A  | Yes, to html, rtf, txt, web site, PDF via print driver  | Yes, import and export plugins API  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Tagging, metadata, attachments
Obsidian | Yes  | N/A  | Yes, to Markdown, PDF, and Pandoc | Yes, plugin API, 1000+ plugins and themes  | No  | Yes, via Obsidian Publish  | Yes, via plugins  | Yes  | Graph, Infinite canvas, tagging, metadata, attachments
PBworks | Yes  | Yes, RSS/Atom  | No  | API, AuthAPI, plugins, wikilets  |  |  |  |  | [79]
PhpWiki | Yes, module  | Yes RSS/Atom/RDF: global, per page or per user  | No  | plugins  | Creole |  |  |  | support all databases
PmWiki | Yes, Addon[80] | Yes, RSS/Atom/RDF (option): global, per namespace, per page or per watchlist; feed readers (plugins)  | Yes, modules[81] | Yes, very, 500+ plugins and configuration recipes[82] | Yes, Creole (option), Markdown (plugin)[83] | Yes  | Section editing, section toggle (modules)  | Yes, Modules[84] | PageVariables and PageLists,[85] blogs (addons), picture galleries (addons), embed maps/videos (addons). Highly flexible ACLs.
SamePage | Yes  | Yes, RSS feeds,  | No  | plugins  |  |  |  |  |
Semantic MediaWiki | Yes, bundled extension (VisualEditor)  | Yes, RSS/Atom  | Yes (RDF, JSON, CSV and other "result formats". Web UI, web API, shell) [3] | actions, handlers  | MediaWiki syntax  | Yes  |  | Yes[86] | Internal query language, visual editor, extensions via PHP modules, collaboration[87]
SharePoint Foundation  | Yes  | Yes, RSS feeds  | No  | Yes: themes, WebParts, API  | Yes (limited)  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Lists, CMS, weblog, tagging, discussion notifications, reports, workflow, enterprise level security
SharePoint Server  | Yes  | Yes, RSS feeds  | No  | Yes: themes, WebParts, API  | Yes (limited)  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Forms(InfoPath), Lists, CMS, Weblog, Tagging, Discussions, Notifications, Reports, Enterprise level security, Workflow, Enterprise Search
Socialtext | Yes  | Yes, RSS feeds, Google/Technorati search results  | No  | using REST/SOAP APIs  |  |  |  |  | [88]
Swiki | No  |  | Some  |  |  |  |  |  | [89]
TiddlyWiki | Yes, with FCKeditor or other plugin  | Yes, RSS  | Yes  | Yes plugins, macros, themes, css  | Creole |  |  | Yes  | [90]
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Yes, with FCKeditor or via Quicktag insertion[91] | Yes, RSS/Atom/RDF  | No  | Hundreds of features, plugins, modules & mods  | No  | Yes (e.g. Siteground)  |  | Yes  | [92]
Trac | Yes with plugin  | Yes, RSS  | Yes with plugins  | Yes limited  |  |  |  |  | ticket system, access source code repositories (git, mercurial, more), other features via plugins
Traction TeamPage | Yes  | Yes, Dynamic RSS inbound, outbound  | No  | Plug-in architecture for widgets, forms, interface and function modifications  |  |  |  |  | [93]
TWiki | Yes, pre-installed plugin  | Yes, RSS/Atom, with search string  | No  | 400+ extensions; Plugin API for developers; TWiki markup/scripting for users to create wiki applications  | Yes, user selectable wiki syntax with EditSyntaxPlugin  |  |  | Yes, if "%TOC%" shortcut added to page  | [94]
UseModWiki | No  | Yes, RSS  | No  | No, unofficial patches only  | No  | No  | No  | Partial, if <toc> is added with # added to headings  |
Whizfolders | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes, markup  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Rich Text, RTF export, clipboard collect, Print with TOC
Wiki.js | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Markdown |  | Yes  | Yes  | Built-in search
Wikispaces | Yes  | Yes, RSS/Atom  | No  | API, widgets, single sign-on (SSO)  |  |  |  |  | [95]
XWiki | Yes, using CKEditor and various plugins developed for it  | Yes, RSS  | Yes, XAR (zipped XWiki ARchive) files  | Yes, component, plugins, macros, scripts, applications  | Yes, based on WikiModel, support syntaxes from other wikis  | Yes  | No  | Yes, using the {{toc}} macro  | [96]
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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BlueSpice | Linux, Unix, Windows, others  |  | IIS–Apache, Tomcat  | MySQL, Oracle  | No
BookStack | Linux, Unix, Windows, others  |  | PHP-compatible webserver  | PHP 8.0.2+, MySQL or MariaDB, Git, Composer[97] | No
Central Desktop | N/A: hosted  |  | None  | None  |
Confluence | Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Oracle Solaris[98] |  | Tomcat included, or use your own servlet container.  | Java 1.8, database such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, etc.[98] |
ConnectedText | Microsoft Windows  |  | None  | Python optional  | Yes
DokuWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows, others  | 17  | 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
Gollum | Cross platform  |  | No (built in), but possible (Apache, Nginx, Puma, etc.)  | None  | Yes
IBM Connections | Linux (RHEL & SLES), Unix (AIX), Windows[99] |  | 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  | No
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  |  | None (built-in)  | VMware Player  |
MediaWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows, others  |  | Any web server that supports PHP 7.4.3+  | PHP; one of MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite[100] | Yes
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  |  | 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)  |
MyInfo | Microsoft Windows  |  | None  | None  | Yes
Obsidian | macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android  |  | None  | None  |
PhpWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows, others  |  | Any Web server with PHP  | PHP  |
PmWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows, others  | 8  | Any Web server with PHP, can run without a web server.  | PHP  | Yes
Semantic MediaWiki | Linux, Unix, Windows, others  |  | Any web server that supports PHP 7.4.3+  | PHP; one of MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite[101] | Yes
SharePoint Foundation  | Windows Server  |  | IIS | Optional SQL Server  |
SharePoint Server  | Windows Server or SaaS  |  | IIS or SaaS  | Optional SQL Server  |
Socialtext | N/A: hosted  |  | no, all needed components included  | no, all needed components included  |
Swiki | Linux, Unix, Windows, others  |  | None: installs own server; can coexist with IIS and Apache by running on alternate port  | None  |
TiddlyWiki | Any (that runs common browsers)  |  | None  | Runs in regular browser  | Yes
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Linux, Unix, Windows, others  |  | Any Web server with PHP[102] | PHP  | Yes
Trac | Linux, Windows  |  | Recommended (fcgi or wsgi), builtin available  | SQL database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sqlite)  |
Traction TeamPage | Any OS capable of running Java 2 Virtual Machine  |  | Jetty (included with installer)  | 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  |
Whizfolders | Microsoft Windows  |  | None  | None  | No
Wiki.js | Linux, Unix, Windows, others  |  | None (built-in): Can coexist with Apache, Nginx, IIS via alternate port  | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL or SQLite3[103] | Yes
Wikispaces | SaaS: hosted  |  | None  | None  |
XWiki | Java Platform  |  | Any Java EE webserver  | Java  | Yes on Jetty/HSQL
Wiki software  | Platform  | Typical installation size (MB)  | Web server needed  | Other software needed  | Installable to USB stick

## See also

[edit]

* Comparison of
* wiki farms
* notetaking software
* text editors
* HTML editors
* word processors
* wiki hosting services
* List of
* wikis
* wiki software
* personal information managers
* text editors
* outliners for
* desktops
* mobile devices
* web-based

## Footnotes

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1. ^ a b Licenses here are a summary, and are not taken to be complete statements of the licenses. Some packages may use libraries under different licenses.
2. ^ "BlueSpice Download". bluespice.com. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
3. ^ "Setup:System requirements". BlueSpice Wiki. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
4. ^ "Release 24.12.1". 4 January 2025.
5. ^ "Installation · BookStack". BookStack. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
6. ^ "GitHub: cliki2: The wiki software behind cliki.net". GitHub.
7. ^ reference URL: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/issues-resolved-in-8-5-2-1295815337.html
8. ^ Atlassian Confluence Licensing FAQs("Do I get access to the source code?".)
9. ^ "Supported Platforms - Confluence Data Center and Server 8.6 - Atlassian Documentation". confluence.atlassian.com. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
10. ^ "Release 2025-05-14 "Librarian"".
11. ^ "Releases - foswiki/distro". github.com. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
12. ^ "Foswiki is getting SQL RDBMS support!". WikiRing Blog. 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012.
13. ^ "Release 6.1.0". 23 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
14. ^ "Administering Connections 6 CR5". ibm.com. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
15. ^ "ikiwiki". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
16. ^ "roadmap". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012. "Released 29 April 2006."
17. ^ http://ikiwiki.info/news/
18. ^ a b "Free Software". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
19. ^ "install". ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
20. ^ "ikiwiki feature "Use a Real RCS"". Ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
21. ^ "ikiwiki Revision Control Systems". Ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
22. ^ "Performance Improvements and Fixed Issues in Jive Hosted on Premise 9.0.7.1". jivesoftware.com. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
23. ^ including: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, IBM Db2 and Microsoft SQL Server
24. ^ "Announcing MediaWiki 1.44.0". 2 July 2025. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
25. ^ "Manual:Installation requirements". MediaWiki.org.
26. ^ "Midgard-Project.org". 6 March 2012. Archived from the original on 8 May 2012.
27. ^ "The MoinMoin Wiki Engine". Retrieved 30 January 2021.
28. ^ "GitHub: mojomojo/mojomojo: A Catalyst & DBIx::Class powered Wiki". GitHub. 27 April 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
29. ^ "Notion 2.0.41". Chocolatey Software. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
30. ^ "Obsidian 1.3.5". Obsidian. Retrieved 23 June 2023.
31. ^ "PhpWiki". SourceForge. 6 May 2025.
32. ^ "PhpWiki: Code: [r11057] /trunk". sourceforge.net. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
33. ^ PmWiki version 0.1 (tgz archive) has its most recent file from 8 Jan 2002. The PmWiki-Users Mailing list exist since August 2002.
34. ^ "Release Notes". pmwiki.org. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
35. ^ https://pukiwiki.osdn.jp/?PukiWiki/Download/1.5.4. Retrieved 31 March 2022. `{{cite web}}`: Missing or empty `|title=` (help)
36. ^ "Semantic MediaWiki 2.5.6 released". Retrieved 14 February 2018.
37. ^ "COMPATIBILITY - semantic-mediawiki.org". semantic-mediaWiki.org.
38. ^ "Release 5.3.7". 7 July 2025. Retrieved 12 July 2025.
39. ^ "GitLab/tikiwiki/tiki tags/27.1". Retrieved 9 January 2025.
40. ^ Community, Tiki. "Requirements". Documentation for Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
41. ^ "TracChangeLog: The Trac Project". trac.edgewall.org.
42. ^ "TracInstall: The Trac Project". trac.edgewall.org. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
43. ^ "MySqlDb: The Trac Project". trac.edgewall.org. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
44. ^ "TeamPage Changelog". tractionsoftware.com. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
45. ^ "Download TWiki". twiki.org. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
46. ^ "Release v2.5.307". 24 March 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
47. ^ Cunningham, Ward. "WikiHistory". Retrieved 25 August 2014. "An early page, WikiWikiHyperCard, traces wiki ideas back to a HyperCard stack I wrote in the late 80's. This same stack, by the way, spawned CrcCards. I've reconstructed the WikiDesignPrinciples I applied at the time."
48. ^ "Download XWiki". XWiki.org. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
49. ^ "Database Support Strategy (Community.SupportStrategy.DatabaseSupportStrategy): XWiki". dev.xwiki.org. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
50. ^ "Release 0.76.3". 28 March 2025. Retrieved 31 March 2025.
51. ^ "Manual:Preventing access". MediaWiki.org.
52. ^ "ParserMarket/mathtran". MoinMoin.in.
53. ^ "Manual:Preventing access". MediaWiki.org.
54. ^ a b 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).
55. ^ a b 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.
56. ^ a b 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.
57. ^ "PHPXRef 0.7: DokuWiki: /". xref.dokuwiki.org.
58. ^ a b IP address blacklist, content by regular expressions, excessive activities, scripted registration prevention (plugin), hidden e-mail addresses
59. ^ word/URL block (addon, auto-upd. database), URL-approval (option), encrypt e-mails (addon), nofollow, Captcha (addon), spam filters (recipe)
60. ^ Shulman, Eric. "AttachFilePluginInfo". TiddlyTools. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
61. ^ Community, Tiki. "Spam Protection". Documentation for Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware.
62. ^ HTML/XHTML with nested markup, or XOXO with collapsing or folding outlines
63. ^ Block architecture, Calendars, Discussions, Database feature, Tasks and Milestones Blocks available
64. ^ "Exporting Confluence Pages and Spaces to XML". Confluence Latest: Atlassian Documentation. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
65. ^ "Marketplace". Atlassian. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
66. ^ "Security Practices". Atlassian.
67. ^ "The Personal Wiki System". ConnectedText.com. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
68. ^ [1] Archived 15 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
69. ^ "plugins". DokuWiki.org.
70. ^ "toc [DokuWiki]". dokuwiki.org.
71. ^ 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.
72. ^ For example, https://github.com/501st-alpha1/big-gollum
73. ^ Support for server-side Javascript, VMware virtual appliance
74. ^ "Manual:Table of contents". MediaWiki.org. 7 January 2015.
75. ^ Per-article discussion page, watchlist, searching, email notification
76. ^ Highly usable, stores in XML, SOA, API, enterprise arch and business focused, fully supported by MindTouch company website
77. ^ Enterprise level security, authentication, and authorization, Email notification, additional desktop edition, XML-RPC content synchronization, searching in attachments (v1.6+).
78. ^ Hierarchical node structure and cascading permissions system allows for stewardship of topics. Version control and ability to do 3-way merge on conflict.
79. ^ 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.
80. ^ The Worse Editor is a simple WYSIWYG editor. In text mode, Edit Toolbar for most frequently used wiki markup codes (customizable), Preview.
81. ^ To HTML (3 modules/recipes), to PDF per page, per pre-defined list of pages, per namespace
82. ^ Highly sophisticated support for customization. Practically chameleon-like.
83. ^ The PmWiki markup rules are easily modifiable and replaceable by plug-ins, should a need for another wiki markup family be demonstrated.
84. ^ AutoTOC, 5 other TOC modules
85. ^ PageVariables and PageLists allow creation of free-form text databases, queries and listings (core feature).
86. ^ "Manual:Table of contents". MediaWiki.org. 7 January 2015.
87. ^ Per-article discussion page, watchlist, searching, email notification
88. ^ accessible through REST/SOAP APIs
89. ^ 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.
90. ^ Single file, minimal setup, cross-browser, per page AES256 encryption, tags and title namespaces
91. ^ Community, Tiki. "Toolbar". Documentation for Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware.
92. ^ 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
93. ^ 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
94. ^ 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
95. ^ Discussion pages, tagging, email notification, full-text search, user dashboard, localization
96. ^ 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
97. ^ "Installation · BookStack". BookStack. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
98. ^ a b "Supported Platforms: Atlassian Documentation". confluence.atlassian.com.
99. ^ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27012786&S_CMP=rnav Detailed system requirements for IBM Connections
100. ^ "Manual:Installation requirements". MediaWiki.org. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
101. ^ "Manual:Installation requirements". MediaWiki.org. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
102. ^ Community, Tiki. "Requirements". Documentation for Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware.
103. ^ "Requirements". Wiki.js. Retrieved 11 March 2023.

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