Comparison of wiki software Software to run a collaborative wiki compared
The following tables compare general and technical information for many wiki software packages.
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
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; 4 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; 19 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
2024-02-06[ 10]
2024-02-06; 15 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; 4 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
1.43.1[ 24]
2025-04-10; 28 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]
2.4.4[ 34]
2025-04-21[±]
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
5.0.1[ 36]
2025-04-14; 24 days 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
5.3.6[ 38]
2024-11-15; 5 months 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; 5 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
6.2 (76)[ 44]
2025-01-29[±]
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; 45 days 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
17.3.0[ 48]
2025-04-28[±]
LGPL
Yes
Yes
Java
HSQLDB, MariaDB , MySQL , Oracle, PostgreSQL [ 49]
Zim
Jaap Karssenberg
10 January 2010
0.76.3[ 50]
2025-03-28; 41 days 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
Target audience
Wiki software
Public
Private
Corporate, enterprise
Education
Intranet
Personal
Scientific, technical, mathematical
BlueSpice
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes 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
Yes Mathematical formulas rendered using LaTeX, directed acyclic graphs rendered with GraphViz
DokuWiki
Yes
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
Yes LaTeX & math plugins; full HTML, JavaScript support
Gitit
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes Built-in support for LaTeX math; syntax highlighting for code blocks.
Gollum
Yes
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
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
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
Yes, support for LaTeX , code blocks, plugins
PBworks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
PhpWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes, support for LaTeX through a plugin.
PmWiki
Yes
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
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
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
Yes support for LaTeX math; syntax highlighting.
Trac
Yes
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
Yes LaTeX & math plugins; full HTML, JavaScript support
UseModWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Whizfolders
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes: through pictures and Windows RTF features
Wiki.js
Yes
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
Wiki software
File uploading, attachments
Spam prevention
Page access control[ 54]
Inline HTML[ 55]
User-customizable interface[ 56]
Document renaming
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
Features 2
Wiki software
WYSIWYG editing
Web feeds
Export, import
Extensibility
Selectable wiki syntax
Wiki farms
Outliner mechanism[ 62]
Automatic TOC
Other features
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
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
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
^ 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.
^ "BlueSpice Download" . bluespice.com. Retrieved 15 February 2024 .
^ "Setup:System requirements" . BlueSpice Wiki . Retrieved 16 July 2023 .
^ "Release 24.12.1" . 4 January 2025.
^ "Installation · BookStack" . BookStack . 1 January 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2022 .
^ "GitHub: cliki2: The wiki software behind cliki.net" . GitHub .
^ reference URL: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/issues-resolved-in-8-5-2-1295815337.html
^ Atlassian Confluence Licensing FAQs("Do I get access to the source code?" . )
^ "Supported Platforms - Confluence Data Center and Server 8.6 - Atlassian Documentation" . confluence.atlassian.com . Retrieved 23 October 2023 .
^ "Release 2024-02-06 "Kaos" " .
^ "Releases - foswiki/distro" . github.com. Retrieved 18 December 2024 .
^ "Foswiki is getting SQL RDBMS support!" . WikiRing Blog . 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012.
^ "Release 6.1.0" . 23 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025 .
^ "Administering Connections 6 CR5" . ibm.com. Retrieved 2 July 2019 .
^ "ikiwiki" . ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012 .
^ "roadmap" . ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012 . Released 29 April 2006.
^ http://ikiwiki.info/news/
^ a b "Free Software" . ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012 .
^ "install" . ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 1 February 2012 .
^ "ikiwiki feature "Use a Real RCS" " . Ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 29 January 2010 .
^ "ikiwiki Revision Control Systems" . Ikiwiki.info. Retrieved 29 January 2010 .
^ "Performance Improvements and Fixed Issues in Jive Hosted on Premise 9.0.7.1" . jivesoftware.com. Retrieved 2 July 2019 .
^ including: MySQL , Oracle , PostgreSQL , IBM Db2 and Microsoft SQL Server
^ "Security and maintenance release: 1.39.12 / 1.42.6 / 1.43.1" . 10 April 2025.
^ "Manual:Installation requirements" . MediaWiki.org .
^ "Midgard-Project.org" . 6 March 2012. Archived from the original on 8 May 2012.
^ "The MoinMoin Wiki Engine" . Retrieved 30 January 2021 .
^ "GitHub: mojomojo/mojomojo: A Catalyst & DBIx::Class powered Wiki" . GitHub . 27 April 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2019 .
^ "Notion 2.0.41" . Chocolatey Software . Retrieved 11 March 2023 .
^ "Obsidian 1.3.5" . Obsidian . Retrieved 23 June 2023 .
^ "PhpWiki" . SourceForge . 6 May 2025.
^ "PhpWiki: Code: [r11057] /trunk" . sourceforge.net . Retrieved 16 July 2023 .
^ PmWiki version 0.1 (tgz archive) has its most recent file from 8 Jan 2002. The PmWiki-Users Mailing list exist since August 2002.
^ "Release Notes" . pmwiki.org. Retrieved 21 April 2025 .
^ https://pukiwiki.osdn.jp/?PukiWiki/Download/1.5.4 . Retrieved 31 March 2022 .
^ "SMW 5.0.1" . Retrieved 14 April 2025 .
^ semantic-mediaWiki.org https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Compatibility .
^ "Release 5.3.6" . 15 November 2024. Retrieved 1 December 2024 .
^ "GitLab/tikiwiki/tiki tags/27.1" . Retrieved 9 January 2025 .
^
^ "TracChangeLog: The Trac Project" . trac.edgewall.org .
^ "TracInstall: The Trac Project" . trac.edgewall.org . Retrieved 6 April 2022 .
^ "MySqlDb: The Trac Project" . trac.edgewall.org . Retrieved 6 April 2022 .
^ "TeamPage Changelog" . tractionsoftware.com. Retrieved 30 January 2025 .
^ "Download TWiki" . twiki.org. Retrieved 23 June 2019 .
^ "Release v2.5.307" . 24 March 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025 .
^ 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.
^ "Download XWiki" . XWiki.org. Retrieved 28 April 2025 .
^ "Database Support Strategy (Community.SupportStrategy.DatabaseSupportStrategy): XWiki" . dev.xwiki.org . Retrieved 4 September 2021 .
^ "Release 0.76.3" . 28 March 2025. Retrieved 31 March 2025 .
^ "Manual:Preventing access" . MediaWiki.org .
^ "ParserMarket/mathtran" . MoinMoin.in .
^ "Manual:Preventing access" . MediaWiki.org .
^ 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 ).
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ "PHPXRef 0.7: DokuWiki: /" . xref.dokuwiki.org .
^ a b IP address blacklist, content by regular expressions, excessive activities, scripted registration prevention (plugin), hidden e-mail addresses
^ word/URL block (addon, auto-upd. database), URL-approval (option), encrypt e-mails (addon), nofollow , Captcha (addon), spam filters (recipe)
^ Shulman, Eric. "AttachFilePluginInfo" . TiddlyTools . Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2011 .
^
^ HTML/XHTML with nested markup, or XOXO with collapsing or folding outlines
^ Block architecture, Calendars, Discussions, Database feature, Tasks and Milestones Blocks available
^ "Exporting Confluence Pages and Spaces to XML" . Confluence Latest: Atlassian Documentation . Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014 .
^ "Marketplace" . Atlassian . Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020 .
^ "Security Practices" . Atlassian .
^ "The Personal Wiki System" . ConnectedText.com . Archived from the original on 6 January 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2015 .
^ [1] Archived 15 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^ "plugins" . DokuWiki.org .
^ "toc [DokuWiki]" . dokuwiki.org .
^ 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.
^ For example, https://github.com/501st-alpha1/big-gollum
^ Support for server-side Javascript, VMware virtual appliance
^ "Manual:Table of contents" . MediaWiki.org . 7 January 2015.
^ Per-article discussion page, watchlist, searching, email notification
^ Highly usable, stores in XML, SOA, API, enterprise arch and business focused, fully supported by MindTouch company website
^ Enterprise level security, authentication, and authorization, Email notification, additional desktop edition, XML-RPC content synchronization, searching in attachments (v1.6+).
^ Hierarchical node structure and cascading permissions system allows for stewardship of topics. Version control and ability to do 3-way merge on conflict.
^ 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.
^ The Worse Editor is a simple WYSIWYG editor. In text mode, Edit Toolbar for most frequently used wiki markup codes (customizable), Preview.
^ To HTML (3 modules/recipes), to PDF per page, per pre-defined list of pages, per namespace
^ Highly sophisticated support for customization. Practically chameleon-like.
^ The PmWiki markup rules are easily modifiable and replaceable by plug-ins, should a need for another wiki markup family be demonstrated.
^ AutoTOC , 5 other TOC modules
^ PageVariables and PageLists allow creation of free-form text databases, queries and listings (core feature).
^ "Manual:Table of contents" . MediaWiki.org . 7 January 2015.
^ Per-article discussion page, watchlist, searching, email notification
^ accessible through REST/SOAP APIs
^ 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.
^ Single file, minimal setup, cross-browser, per page AES256 encryption, tags and title namespaces
^
^ 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
^ 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
^ 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
^ Discussion pages, tagging, email notification, full-text search, user dashboard, localization
^ 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
^ "Installation · BookStack" . BookStack . 1 January 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2023 .
^ a b "Supported Platforms: Atlassian Documentation" . confluence.atlassian.com .
^ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27012786&S_CMP=rnav Detailed system requirements for IBM Connections
^ "Manual:Installation requirements" . MediaWiki.org . Retrieved 11 March 2023 .
^ "Manual:Installation requirements" . MediaWiki.org . Retrieved 5 July 2024 .
^
^ "Requirements" . Wiki.js . Retrieved 11 March 2023 .
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