This is a list of wiki software programs. They are grouped by use case: standard wiki programs,
personal wiki programs, hosted-only wikis, wiki-based content management software, and wiki-based project management software. They are further subdivided by the language of implementation: JavaScript, Java,
PHP, Python,
Perl,
Ruby, and so on.
Standard wiki programs, by programming language
JavaScript-based
TiddlyWiki is a
HTML-
JavaScript-based server-less wiki in which the entire site/wiki is contained in a single file, or as a
Node.js-based wiki application. It is designed for maximum customization possibilities.[1]
XWiki is a free wiki software platform written in Java with a design emphasis on extensibility.[2] XWiki is an enterprise wiki engine with a complete wiki feature set (version control, attachments, etc.) and a
database engine and programming language which allows
database driven applications to be created using the wiki interface.
ikiwiki, a "wiki compiler" - can use
Subversion or git as the back end storage mechanism. ikiwiki converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website.
TWiki is a flexible, powerful, secure, simple
Enterprise wiki and application platform. is a structured wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a
knowledge base, or any other
groupware tool. Also available as a
VMware appliance.
WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki and its associated software.
PHP-based
BookStack is released under the
MIT License. It uses the ideas of books to organize pages and store information.
DokuWiki is a wiki application licensed under
GPLv2 and written in PHP. It is aimed at the documentation needs of a small company. DokuWiki was built for small
companies and
organizations that need a simple way to manage information, build knowledge bases and collaborate. It uses plain text files and has a simple but powerful syntax which ensures the datafiles remain readable outside the wiki.
MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software package written in PHP. It serves as the platform for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. MediaWiki is used for projects run by the
Wikimedia Foundation, which operates
Wikipedia. It is also publicly available for use in other wikis, and has widespread popularity among smaller, non-Wikimedia wikis. MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It was developed for use on Wikipedia in 2002, and given the name "MediaWiki" in 2003.
Semantic MediaWiki lets you store and query data within the wiki's pages like a database. It is also designed to ease and combine collaborative authoring within a wiki with
semantic technology.
BlueSpice extends MediaWiki in usability, quality management, process support, administration, editing and security.
MindTouch is an application that began as a
fork of MediaWiki; it has a
C# back-end and a PHP front-end.
PmWiki is a PHP-based wiki. Features include: GPL-licensed, easy installation/customization, designed for collaborative authoring and maintenance of web sites, and support for
internationalization. Does not require a database.
Python-based
LocalWiki is a wiki engine based on
Django, with mapping features and a WYSIWYG editor. The LocalWiki project was founded by
DavisWiki creators Mike Ivanov and Philip Neustrom and is a
501 nonprofit organization based in San Francisco.
ConnectedText was a
commercial Windows-based personal wiki system with features including
full text searches,
visual link tree, customizable interface, image and file control, CSS-based page display, exports to HTML and HTML Help, and plug-ins.
Journler was a free, open-source personal information manager with personal wiki features for OS X.
MyInfo is a commercial, Windows-based personal information manager with wiki features.
Obsidian is a knowledge base and note-taking software application that operates on Markdown files.
TiddlyWiki is a free, open-source personal use (single-machine) wiki based on HTML/JavaScript for any browser and OS. It supports customization and a wide range of add-ons.
Vimwiki is a personal wiki for the text editor
Vim. It operates on interlinked, plain text files written in one of several markup languages and provides features such as HTML export, search, outlined notes and tasks, tagging and auto-formatted tables.
WhizFolders was a commercial Windows-based personal wiki software with rich text wiki items that support inserting links to other wiki items or external files.
Zim is a free, open-source standalone wiki based on Python and GTK with a WYSIWYG editor.
Knowledge Plaza is a knowledge management tool that provides both wiki environments for collaborative topic/project work and an
enterprise bookmarking tool.
Content management and social software with wiki functionality
Confluence is a commercial J2EE application which combines wiki and some
blog functionality. Its features include PDF page export and page refactoring, and it can be run on any application server using any RDBMS backend.
Jive (formerly known as Clearspace, Jive SBS and Jive Engage) is a commercial J2EE application, made by
Jive Software, which combines wiki, blog and document management functionality. Jive uses WYSIWYG editing, and includes workflow management.
Liferay is an open source enterprise portal project with a built-in web content management and web application framework. Core portlets offer a great number of functionalities, including Wiki (both Creole and MediaWiki syntax).
Mindquarry creates a WYSIWYG wiki for each team. It is built using
Apache Cocoon and thus based on Java (Mozilla Public License)
Traction TeamPage is a commercial enterprise wiki also incorporating blog, project management, document management, discussion and tagging capabilities. The wiki has a draft moderation capability allowing administrators to indicate who can read published vs. draft versions, and who can publish vs. author and edit. The dynamic view architecture allows for easy organization of pages and to collect any set of pages for view, email or export. It is based on the principles of
Douglas Engelbart's
On-Line System (NLS) which aggregates multiple blog/wiki spaces using a sophisticated permission and inline comment model.
XWiki includes the standard wiki functionality as well as WYSIWYG editing,
OpenDocument based document import/export, semantic annotations and tagging, and advanced permissions management.
Perl-based
Socialtext is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that produces enterprise
social software, enterprise wiki and
weblog engine partially derived from open-source Kwiki. Socialtext is available as a hosted service, or a dedicated hardware appliance.
PHP-based
Drupal installations can be configured as wikis with MediaWiki-style
wiki markup.
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is one of the larger and more ambitious wiki development projects, including a variety of additional
groupware features (message forums, articles, etc.).
Telligent, A Verint Company is an enterprise collaboration and community software business founded in 2004 by Rob Howard. The company changed its name to Zimbra, Inc in September 2013 after completing the acquisition of Zimbra from
VMWare. In August 2015 Zimbra's Telligent business was acquired by
Verint Systems.
Project management software with wiki functionality
This is a list of wiki software programs. They are grouped by use case: standard wiki programs,
personal wiki programs, hosted-only wikis, wiki-based content management software, and wiki-based project management software. They are further subdivided by the language of implementation: JavaScript, Java,
PHP, Python,
Perl,
Ruby, and so on.
Standard wiki programs, by programming language
JavaScript-based
TiddlyWiki is a
HTML-
JavaScript-based server-less wiki in which the entire site/wiki is contained in a single file, or as a
Node.js-based wiki application. It is designed for maximum customization possibilities.[1]
XWiki is a free wiki software platform written in Java with a design emphasis on extensibility.[2] XWiki is an enterprise wiki engine with a complete wiki feature set (version control, attachments, etc.) and a
database engine and programming language which allows
database driven applications to be created using the wiki interface.
ikiwiki, a "wiki compiler" - can use
Subversion or git as the back end storage mechanism. ikiwiki converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website.
TWiki is a flexible, powerful, secure, simple
Enterprise wiki and application platform. is a structured wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a
knowledge base, or any other
groupware tool. Also available as a
VMware appliance.
WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki and its associated software.
PHP-based
BookStack is released under the
MIT License. It uses the ideas of books to organize pages and store information.
DokuWiki is a wiki application licensed under
GPLv2 and written in PHP. It is aimed at the documentation needs of a small company. DokuWiki was built for small
companies and
organizations that need a simple way to manage information, build knowledge bases and collaborate. It uses plain text files and has a simple but powerful syntax which ensures the datafiles remain readable outside the wiki.
MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software package written in PHP. It serves as the platform for Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. MediaWiki is used for projects run by the
Wikimedia Foundation, which operates
Wikipedia. It is also publicly available for use in other wikis, and has widespread popularity among smaller, non-Wikimedia wikis. MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. It was developed for use on Wikipedia in 2002, and given the name "MediaWiki" in 2003.
Semantic MediaWiki lets you store and query data within the wiki's pages like a database. It is also designed to ease and combine collaborative authoring within a wiki with
semantic technology.
BlueSpice extends MediaWiki in usability, quality management, process support, administration, editing and security.
MindTouch is an application that began as a
fork of MediaWiki; it has a
C# back-end and a PHP front-end.
PmWiki is a PHP-based wiki. Features include: GPL-licensed, easy installation/customization, designed for collaborative authoring and maintenance of web sites, and support for
internationalization. Does not require a database.
Python-based
LocalWiki is a wiki engine based on
Django, with mapping features and a WYSIWYG editor. The LocalWiki project was founded by
DavisWiki creators Mike Ivanov and Philip Neustrom and is a
501 nonprofit organization based in San Francisco.
ConnectedText was a
commercial Windows-based personal wiki system with features including
full text searches,
visual link tree, customizable interface, image and file control, CSS-based page display, exports to HTML and HTML Help, and plug-ins.
Journler was a free, open-source personal information manager with personal wiki features for OS X.
MyInfo is a commercial, Windows-based personal information manager with wiki features.
Obsidian is a knowledge base and note-taking software application that operates on Markdown files.
TiddlyWiki is a free, open-source personal use (single-machine) wiki based on HTML/JavaScript for any browser and OS. It supports customization and a wide range of add-ons.
Vimwiki is a personal wiki for the text editor
Vim. It operates on interlinked, plain text files written in one of several markup languages and provides features such as HTML export, search, outlined notes and tasks, tagging and auto-formatted tables.
WhizFolders was a commercial Windows-based personal wiki software with rich text wiki items that support inserting links to other wiki items or external files.
Zim is a free, open-source standalone wiki based on Python and GTK with a WYSIWYG editor.
Knowledge Plaza is a knowledge management tool that provides both wiki environments for collaborative topic/project work and an
enterprise bookmarking tool.
Content management and social software with wiki functionality
Confluence is a commercial J2EE application which combines wiki and some
blog functionality. Its features include PDF page export and page refactoring, and it can be run on any application server using any RDBMS backend.
Jive (formerly known as Clearspace, Jive SBS and Jive Engage) is a commercial J2EE application, made by
Jive Software, which combines wiki, blog and document management functionality. Jive uses WYSIWYG editing, and includes workflow management.
Liferay is an open source enterprise portal project with a built-in web content management and web application framework. Core portlets offer a great number of functionalities, including Wiki (both Creole and MediaWiki syntax).
Mindquarry creates a WYSIWYG wiki for each team. It is built using
Apache Cocoon and thus based on Java (Mozilla Public License)
Traction TeamPage is a commercial enterprise wiki also incorporating blog, project management, document management, discussion and tagging capabilities. The wiki has a draft moderation capability allowing administrators to indicate who can read published vs. draft versions, and who can publish vs. author and edit. The dynamic view architecture allows for easy organization of pages and to collect any set of pages for view, email or export. It is based on the principles of
Douglas Engelbart's
On-Line System (NLS) which aggregates multiple blog/wiki spaces using a sophisticated permission and inline comment model.
XWiki includes the standard wiki functionality as well as WYSIWYG editing,
OpenDocument based document import/export, semantic annotations and tagging, and advanced permissions management.
Perl-based
Socialtext is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that produces enterprise
social software, enterprise wiki and
weblog engine partially derived from open-source Kwiki. Socialtext is available as a hosted service, or a dedicated hardware appliance.
PHP-based
Drupal installations can be configured as wikis with MediaWiki-style
wiki markup.
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is one of the larger and more ambitious wiki development projects, including a variety of additional
groupware features (message forums, articles, etc.).
Telligent, A Verint Company is an enterprise collaboration and community software business founded in 2004 by Rob Howard. The company changed its name to Zimbra, Inc in September 2013 after completing the acquisition of Zimbra from
VMWare. In August 2015 Zimbra's Telligent business was acquired by
Verint Systems.
Project management software with wiki functionality