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Table of contents
General info
| Engine | License | Community project or Open-sourced by a company | Language | Storage | Can run on shared hosting | Template engine |
| Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | LGPL | Community | PHP | Database | Yes | Smarty |
| MediaWiki | GPL | WikiMedia foundation and community | PHP | Database | Yes | ? |
| TWiki | GPL | Twiki.net and community | Perl | Flat files | No | ? |
| FOSWiki | GPL | Community (Twiki-fork) | Perl | Flat files | No | ? |
| DokuWiki | GPL | Community | PHP | Flat files | Yes | ? |
| MindTouch | GPL & LPGL | MindTouch | PHP & C# | Database | No | ? |
| MoinMoin | GPL | Community | Python | Flat files | No | simple |
| Confluence | commercial | Atlassian | Java | ? | No | ? |
| PmWiki | GPL | Community | PHP | Flat files | Yes | ? |
| JSPWiki | LGPL | Community | Java | ? | ? | ? |
| XWiki | LGPL | Xwiki.com | Java | Database | No | ? |
| Trac | modified BSD | Edgewall | Python | Database | ? | ? |
| PhpWiki | GPL | Community | PHP | ? | yes | ? |
| Bitweaver | LGPL | Community | PHP | database | yes | Smarty |
| Socialtext | see site | Socialtext | Perl | Postgresql | no | ? |
| WikkaWiki | GPL | Community | PHP | database | yes | ? |
| FlexWiki | ||||||
| ScrewTurn Wiki | ||||||
| Wagn | ? | ? | Ruby | Database | ? | ? |
Community stats
| Engine | Number of commiters | Ohloh stacks | IRC chat room size (freenode) | Facebook group | ||
| Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | 186 | 46 | 25 | 177 | ||
| MediaWiki | 210 | 349 | 183 | 48 | ||
| TWiki | 81 | 31 | 45 | 72 | ||
| FOSWiki | 43 | 26 | ||||
| DokuWiki | ? | 75 | 36 | no group found | ||
| MindTouch | 19 | 9 | 11 | 132 | ||
| MoinMoin | 29 | 56 | 42 | no group found | ||
| Confluence | ? | n/a | must use something else | 153 | ||
| PmWiki | 4 | 25 | 10 | 8 | ||
| JSPWiki | 293? | 10 | 7 | 11 | ||
| XWiki | 55 | 20 | must use something else | 147 | ||
| Trac | 17 | 851 | 114 | no group found | ||
| PhpWiki | 17 | 1 | must use something else | no group found | ||
| Bitweaver | 11 | 3 | 19 | 1 | ||
| Socialtext | 29 | 0 | must use something else | 66 | ||
| WikkaWiki | 8 | 18 | 10 | no group found | ||
| FlexWiki | 5 | 1 | ||||
| ScrewTurn Wiki | 2 | 19 | ||||
Ohloh stats
no data available for Confluence No data available for Wagn
More stats
| Engine | Alexa | CIA messages Oct 2008 | SSC toolbox | Freshmeat rank | SourceForge activity level | |
| Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | 45,761 | 439 | 12 | 43 | click | |
| MediaWiki | 36,561 | 1465 | 52 | 259 | click | |
| TWiki | 66,565 | ? | 1 | 791 | click | |
| FOSWiki | ||||||
| DokuWiki | 42,085 | not found at CIA | 7 | 47 | ||
| MindTouch | 36,594 | 161 | 0 | new | click | |
| MoinMoin | 215,752 | 46 | 2 | 613 | ||
| Confluence | 40,234 | not found at CIA | 5 | 2718 | ||
| PmWiki | 89,911 | ? | 0 | 3101 | ||
| JSPWiki | 127,138 | not found at CIA | not found | 14703 | ||
| XWiki | 177,743 | not found at CIA | not found | 2345 | ||
| Trac | 62,478 | not found at CIA | 11 | 425 | ||
| PhpWiki | n/a, part of SourceForge.net | 42 | not found | 717 | ||
| Bitweaver | 263,457 | 391 | not found | 8394 | click | |
| Socialtext | 110,172 | not found at CIA | 4 | not found | click | |
| WikkaWiki | 278,160 | 18 | 0 | 4342 | ||
| FlexWiki | 485,429 | click | ||||
| ScrewTurn Wiki | ||||||
Other
| Engine | GSOC2009 | GSOC2008 | ||||
| Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | yes | no | ||||
| MediaWiki | yes | yes | ||||
| TWiki | no | no | ||||
| FOSWiki | no | no | ||||
| DokuWiki | no | no | ||||
| MindTouch | no | no | ||||
| MoinMoin | yes | yes | ||||
| Confluence | no | no | ||||
| PmWiki | no | no | ||||
| JSPWiki | no | no | ||||
| XWiki | yes | yes | ||||
| Trac | no | no | ||||
| PhpWiki | no | no | ||||
| Bitweaver | no | no | ||||
| Socialtext | no | no | ||||
| WikkaWiki | no | no | ||||
| FlexWiki | no | no | ||||
| ScrewTurn Wiki | ||||||
Related
- http://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1360?sort_by=popularity
- http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/?type_of_search=soft&fq[]=trove%3A651&sort=num_downloads_week&sortdir=desc&limit=25
- http://www.ohloh.net/tags/wiki
- http://freshmeat.net/tags/wiki?sort=popularity
- http://moinmo.in/WikiEngineComparison
- WikiCreolePopularityMethod
- http://www.wikimatrix.org/statistic/Most+Views
- compare them all on WikiMatrix
To do
This page should be split in three sections, community wiki (easy hosting) & enterprise/applications wikis. (behind the firewall, large scale, commercial support), hosted solutions (Ã la pbwiki)