Comparison of wiki farms
Encyclopedia
This comparison of wiki farm
s details notable online services which host wiki
-style editable web page
s. General characteristics of cost, presence of advertising, licensing, and Alexa
rank are compared, as are technical differences in editing, features, wiki engine, multilingual support and syntax support.
The Alexa
traffic rankings are not accurate for those wiki farms that allow some of their hosted wikis to have separate domain names. In those cases there may be some additional Alexa rankings listed below for some of the larger individual wikis in a wiki farm. And the Alexa rankings may be different with respect to time.
Wiki farm
A wiki hosting service or wiki farm is a server or an array of servers that offer users tools to simplify the creation and development of individual, independent wikis...
s details notable online services which host wiki
Wiki
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...
-style editable web page
Web page
A web page or webpage is a document or information resource that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a monitor or mobile device. This information is usually in HTML or XHTML format, and may provide navigation to other web pages via hypertext...
s. General characteristics of cost, presence of advertising, licensing, and Alexa
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...
rank are compared, as are technical differences in editing, features, wiki engine, multilingual support and syntax support.
General comparison
The following tables compare general information for several of the more than 100 wiki farms that have been created.The Alexa
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...
traffic rankings are not accurate for those wiki farms that allow some of their hosted wikis to have separate domain names. In those cases there may be some additional Alexa rankings listed below for some of the larger individual wikis in a wiki farm. And the Alexa rankings may be different with respect to time.
| Wiki farm | Cost | Ads | Content license | Alexa Alexa Internet Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic... rank |
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| Central Desktop Central Desktop Central Desktop, Inc. is a privately held collaboration software company that is headquartered in Pasadena, California. The company's primary focus is providing a Software-as-a-Service collaboration tool to small and medium-sized businesses. The company and its products are most often compared to... |
Free/paid | 12,794 | ||
| Confluence Hosted Confluence (software) Confluence is an enterprise wiki software. Written in Java and mainly used in corporate environments, Confluence is developed and marketed by Atlassian. Confluence is sold as either on-premises software or as a hosted solution... |
5,886 | |||
| eTouch ETouch Systems eTouch Systems, based in Fremont, California, U.S.A., is a provider of enterprise-class wiki / corporate wiki solutions and consulting services.The company was founded in 1998 and introduced its J2EE-based enterprise wiki and blog software, SamePage, in 2006.... SamePage SamePage SamePage is an enterprise wiki application written in Java with a WYSIWYG user interface. Developed and marketed by eTouch Systems, SamePage is sold as a hosted/Software as a service or on-premise software solution for collaboration and knowledge management... |
412,399 | |||
| Ourproject.org Ourproject.org OurProject.org is a web-based collaborative free content repository. It acts as a central location for the construction and maintenance of social/cultural/artistic projects, providing web space and tools, and focusing in free knowledge. It claims to extend the ideas and methodology of free... |
Copyleft Copyleft Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work... (choice of Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... , GNU FDL, other licenses) |
83,651 | ||
| PBworks | Free/paid | 2,758 | ||
| Socialtext Socialtext Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software, comprising an integrated suite of web-based social software applications including microblogging, user profile, directories, groups, personal dashboards using OpenSocial widgets, and shared... Workspace Hosted |
Wiki creators can set their own. | 90,271 | ||
| TeamWikis ProjectForum ProjectForum is a commercial wiki software product developed by CourseForum Technologies in Edmonton, AB, Canada. It is targeted primarily at small-medium teams, whether in small or large organizations, but is used in the same wide variety of context as most wiki software, e.g.. Free and paid... |
Any | 7,346,031 | ||
| Wetpaint Wetpaint Wetpaint is a Seattle, Washington-based company, founded in 2005, that hosts both user-generated and professionally created content. Wetpaint began as a wiki farm, hosting wikis using their own proprietary software. In 2010, the main site was rebranded as Wetpaint Entertainment, a website focused... |
Free/Paid | Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... |
2,610 | |
| Wik.is MindTouch MindTouch, Inc., an open-source software-development company based in San Diego, California, USA, started in January, 2005 with offices in Saint Paul, Minnesota and Bellevue, Washington. It merged all its offices in San Diego in February 2007.-History:... |
Not Applicable | Decommissioned | Website was, per vendor, decommissioned on December 31, 2010. | 6,509,047 |
| Wikia Wikia Wikia is a free web hosting service for wikis . It is normally free of charge for readers and editors, deriving most of its income from advertising, and publishes all user-provided text under copyleft licenses. Wikia hosts several hundred thousand wikis using the open-source wiki software MediaWiki... |
Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... |
208 | ||
| Wikidot Wikidot Wikidot.com is a social networking service and wiki hosting service , developed in Toruń, Poland. Wikidot Inc., which owns and operates Wikidot.com, is incorporated in Delaware, USA, Division of Corporations, file no. 4326793... |
Free/paid | By default Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... , GNU FDL, other licenses as requested |
3,264 | |
| Wikispaces Wikispaces Wikispaces is a hosting service based in San Francisco, California. Launched in March 2005, Wikispaces is owned by Tangient LLC and is among the largest wiki hosts, competing with PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, and Google Sites .Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and... |
Free/paid | Choice of Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... , GNU FDL, other licenses |
1,916 | |
| WikiSpot | By default Creative Commons Creative Commons Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons... , GNU FDL, other licenses by user choice |
176,413* | ||
| XWiki XWiki XWiki is a free wiki software platform written in Java with a design emphasis on extensibility. XWiki Enterprise, the enterprise wiki edition, includes WYSIWYG editing, OpenOffice based document import/export, semantic annotations and tagging, and advanced permissions management.As an application... |
Free/paid | Any | 549,790 | |
| Wiki farm | Cost? | Ads? | Content license | Alexa Alexa Internet Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic... rank |
Technical comparison
| Wiki farm | WYSIWYG WYSIWYG WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product... editing |
Features | Base wiki engine | Multilingual support | Syntax support |
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| Central Desktop Central Desktop Central Desktop, Inc. is a privately held collaboration software company that is headquartered in Pasadena, California. The company's primary focus is providing a Software-as-a-Service collaboration tool to small and medium-sized businesses. The company and its products are most often compared to... |
Access control, full-text search, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, RSS RSS -Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats... enabled. |
[?] (custom) | HTML, CSS/templating No formulas |
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| Confluence Hosted Confluence (software) Confluence is an enterprise wiki software. Written in Java and mainly used in corporate environments, Confluence is developed and marketed by Atlassian. Confluence is sold as either on-premises software or as a hosted solution... |
Wiki markup language, plugins, SSL, file storage, permissioning, WebDAV. | HTML plugin script plugin No formulas |
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| eTouch ETouch Systems eTouch Systems, based in Fremont, California, U.S.A., is a provider of enterprise-class wiki / corporate wiki solutions and consulting services.The company was founded in 1998 and introduced its J2EE-based enterprise wiki and blog software, SamePage, in 2006.... SamePage SamePage SamePage is an enterprise wiki application written in Java with a WYSIWYG user interface. Developed and marketed by eTouch Systems, SamePage is sold as a hosted/Software as a service or on-premise software solution for collaboration and knowledge management... |
Project management, permissioning, administration and support for multiple domains. | eTouch CMS (custom, powered by) | |||
| Ourproject.org Ourproject.org OurProject.org is a web-based collaborative free content repository. It acts as a central location for the construction and maintenance of social/cultural/artistic projects, providing web space and tools, and focusing in free knowledge. It claims to extend the ideas and methodology of free... |
Wikis, mailing lists, FTP, SSH, subdomains, hosting, ddbb, email alias, backups, CVS/SVN, forums, task management. | MoinMoin MoinMoin MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python, initially based on the PikiPiki wiki engine. The MoinMoin code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2, or any later version .A number of organizations use MoinMoin to run public wikis,... by default; custom supported |
Supports English, Spanish, French, and many other languages. | ||
| PBworks | Subdomain. No page limits, SSL, RSS & Atom, ZIP backups, diffs, colour schemes, email notifications, file management, page access settings. Over 800,000 workspaces hosted. One level of folders used to organize pages. Free accounts limited to 2 GB. Available to paying users: Folder- and page-level access controls, custom domain, unlimited storage. | [?] (custom) | All HTML, JavaScript, LaTeX LaTeX LaTeX is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as . The term LaTeX refers only to the language in which documents are written, not to the editor used to write those documents. In order to... formulas |
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| Socialtext Socialtext Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software, comprising an integrated suite of web-based social software applications including microblogging, user profile, directories, groups, personal dashboards using OpenSocial widgets, and shared... Workspace |
Enterprise Wiki. Supports text, rich text, embedded images, video, and attachments (including from email). | Derived from Kwiki | |||
| TeamWikis ProjectForum ProjectForum is a commercial wiki software product developed by CourseForum Technologies in Edmonton, AB, Canada. It is targeted primarily at small-medium teams, whether in small or large organizations, but is used in the same wide variety of context as most wiki software, e.g.. Free and paid... |
Rich text, images, attachments, versioning, sub-wikis, templates, branding and themes, quick commenting, multiple authentication options, email and RSS/Atom integration. | ProjectForum ProjectForum ProjectForum is a commercial wiki software product developed by CourseForum Technologies in Edmonton, AB, Canada. It is targeted primarily at small-medium teams, whether in small or large organizations, but is used in the same wide variety of context as most wiki software, e.g.. Free and paid... |
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| Wetpaint Wetpaint Wetpaint is a Seattle, Washington-based company, founded in 2005, that hosts both user-generated and professionally created content. Wetpaint began as a wiki farm, hosting wikis using their own proprietary software. In 2010, the main site was rebranded as Wetpaint Entertainment, a website focused... |
WYSIWYG WYSIWYG WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product... editing only, custom page hierarchies, Comment and Reply forums with comment ratings, access control, keyword search, tags, tag filtering, skins, RSS RSS -Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats... , page locking, profiles, site activity report, page and comment watching. No page permission settings. No changes preview. |
Java Java (programming language) Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities... -based (custom) |
No HTML, Unknown script No formulas |
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| Wik.is MindTouch MindTouch, Inc., an open-source software-development company based in San Diego, California, USA, started in January, 2005 with offices in Saint Paul, Minnesota and Bellevue, Washington. It merged all its offices in San Diego in February 2007.-History:... |
Not Applicable | Website was, per vendor, decommissioned on December 31, 2010. Migration was offered to vendor's replacement "MindTouch Cloud" product. | Deki Wiki | ||
| Wikia Wikia Wikia is a free web hosting service for wikis . It is normally free of charge for readers and editors, deriving most of its income from advertising, and publishes all user-provided text under copyleft licenses. Wikia hosts several hundred thousand wikis using the open-source wiki software MediaWiki... |
Common login and common preferences to all wikis of Wikia for the same user. Database download available. Cannot close an inactive wiki, even if the community has moved elsewhere. Domains, names, and identifiers owned by Wikia Inc. Will configure Semantic MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki Semantic MediaWiki is an extension to MediaWiki that allows for annotating semantic data within wiki pages, thus turning a wiki that incorporates the extension into a semantic wiki... on request. Blog, User Page, and User Talk pages for users. |
MediaWiki MediaWiki MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites... 1.16.1 |
All languages Wikipedia exists for (and some more); Community Support in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese, and several other languages. | Same as Wikipedia Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,... due to the same Wiki engine - MediaWiki: Some HTML, Wikitext Wikitext Wikitext language, or wiki markup, is a lightweight markup language used to write pages in wiki websites, such as Wikipedia, and is a simplified alternative/intermediate to HTML. Its ultimate purpose is to be converted by wiki software into HTML, which in turn is served to web browsers.There is no... , JavaScript, Math formulas |
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| Wikidot Wikidot Wikidot.com is a social networking service and wiki hosting service , developed in Toruń, Poland. Wikidot Inc., which owns and operates Wikidot.com, is incorporated in Delaware, USA, Division of Corporations, file no. 4326793... |
Subdomain Subdomain In the Domain Name System hierarchy, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain.- Overview :The Domain Name System has a tree structure or hierarchy, with each node on the tree being a domain name. A subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain, the only domain that is not... . Can map a custom domain if previously registered for free. User can allow ads to be displayed on their wiki and get 80% of revenue. RSS RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... , customizable themes with CSS, advanced forum for each site. Custom page hierarchies, searching, advanced page (full/section/append) edit locking, blocking users and IP addresses. Private messages between users. Uses Ajax Ajax (programming) Ajax is a group of interrelated web development methods used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications... . No limit on site size. Public and private wikis. Widgets. Each user can create up to 20 wiki sites and be a member of an unlimited number of wikis. |
Modified Text_Wiki engine | English, Polish, Russian and Community support in French and German | No HTML, CSS styling LaTeX math formulas |
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| Wikispaces Wikispaces Wikispaces is a hosting service based in San Francisco, California. Launched in March 2005, Wikispaces is owned by Tangient LLC and is among the largest wiki hosts, competing with PBworks, Wetpaint, Wikia, and Google Sites .Private wikis with advanced features for businesses, non-profits and... |
Subdomain. No limits on numbers of pages, spaces, or members. Full RSS RSS (file format) RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format... support; easy space backups in zip ZIP (file format) Zip is a file format used for data compression and archiving. A zip file contains one or more files that have been compressed, to reduce file size, or stored as is... and tgz Tar (file format) In computing, tar is both a file format and the name of a program used to handle such files... . Blog import function/ integration. Themes and stylesheets can be customized. Private label service available. |
[?] (custom) | Optional HTML, Unknown script Math formulas |
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| WikiSpot | No advertising, user accounts work on all wikis, use bookmarks and track changes across multiple wikis. Customizable CSS by wiki and user CSS. Simple, intuitive syntax. No limits on pages/disk space. RSS feeds available on all pages. Easy to create a wiki and configure settings. | Sycamore (based on MoinMoin MoinMoin MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python, initially based on the PikiPiki wiki engine. The MoinMoin code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2, or any later version .A number of organizations use MoinMoin to run public wikis,... ) |
MoinMoin style wiki markup | ||
| XWiki XWiki XWiki is a free wiki software platform written in Java with a design emphasis on extensibility. XWiki Enterprise, the enterprise wiki edition, includes WYSIWYG editing, OpenOffice based document import/export, semantic annotations and tagging, and advanced permissions management.As an application... |
Custom skin, unlimited users | XWiki XWiki XWiki is a free wiki software platform written in Java with a design emphasis on extensibility. XWiki Enterprise, the enterprise wiki edition, includes WYSIWYG editing, OpenOffice based document import/export, semantic annotations and tagging, and advanced permissions management.As an application... |
All HTML, velocity/groovy No formulas |
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| Wiki farm | WYSIWYG WYSIWYG WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product... editing |
Features | Wiki engine | Multilingual support | Syntax support |
See also
- Collaborative real-time editor
- Collaborative softwareCollaborative softwareCollaborative software is computer software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals...
- Comparison of wiki softwareComparison of wiki softwareThe following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki software packages.-General information:-Target audience:-Features 1:-Features 2:-Installation:-See also:* List of wiki software* List of wikis* Wiki farm...
- List of collaborative software
- List of wiki software
- List of wikis
- Wiki softwareWiki softwareWiki software is collaborative software that runs a wiki, i.e., a website that allows users to create and collaboratively edit web pages via a web browser. A wiki system is usually a web application that runs on one or more web servers...