Comparison of wiki software - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki software

Wiki software

Wiki 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...

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General information

	Creator	Latest stable release	Software license	Encoding	Programming language	Data backend Data management Data management comprises all the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource.- Overview :The official definition provided by DAMA International, the professional organization for those in the data management profession, is: "Data Resource Management is the development and execution...
BrainKeeper BrainKeeper BrainKeeper, Inc. is a privately held collaboration software company located in Fairfax, VA. The company provides a Software-as-a-Service collaboration tool targeted towards companies and organizations. The product is most often compared to other wiki-based web 2.0 solutions such as Atlassian and...	BrainKeeper, Inc.		Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...		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... /Java EE	MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
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...	Central Desktop Inc.	2.0	Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...		PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...	PostgreSQL PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...
codeBeamer CodeBeamer (software) codeBeamer is a web based Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management tool for distributed software development, written in Java. It is developed and marketed by Intland Software. Its license is proprietary, but free versions and free hosting options are available...	Intland Software Intland Software Intland Software is a provider of enterprise-class collaboration solutions. The company is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany and has an office in Sunnyvale, California.- History :Intland Software was formally founded in 1999 by two industry veterans...	5.6.0	Proprietary Proprietary software Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...	UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...	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...	MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... , Oracle Oracle Database The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.... , Apache Derby Apache Derby Apache Derby is a relational database management system developed by the Apache Software Foundation that can be embedded in Java programs and used for online transaction processing. It has a 2 MB disk-space footprint.Apache Derby is developed as an open source project under the Apache 2.0 license... or Postgres
Confluence	Atlassian Software Systems	4.0		UTF-8 UTF-8 UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...	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... , Java EE	DB2 IBM DB2 The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions... , MS SQL Server, MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... , Oracle Oracle database The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.... , or PostgreSQL PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...
coWiki CoWiki coWiki is an inactive wiki engine implemented in PHP 5 and using a MySQL database. It is licenced under the GNU General Public License. coWiki uses a markup language similar to that of TWiki....	Daniel T. Gorski; Paul Hanchett

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

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MindTouch Deki

MindTouch Core is a web-based collaboration, wiki software and mashup platform, developed by MindTouch, Inc. It is divided into a front-end and an API, written in C#...

| MindTouch

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:...

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| 10.0.8
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| 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...

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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

/LGPL, Apache License

Apache License

The Apache License is a copyfree free software license authored by the Apache Software Foundation . The Apache License requires preservation of the copyright notice and disclaimer....

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| UTF-8

UTF-8

UTF-8 is a multibyte character encoding for Unicode. Like UTF-16 and UTF-32, UTF-8 can represent every character in the Unicode character set. Unlike them, it is backward-compatible with ASCII and avoids the complications of endianness and byte order marks...

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| PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

, C# on Windows or Mono

Mono (software)

Mono, pronounced , is a free and open source project led by Xamarin to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime....

| MySQL

MySQL

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DokuWiki

DokuWiki is a wiki application aimed at small companies’ documentation needs. DokuWiki is licensed under GPL 2 and written in the programming language PHP. It works on plain text files and thus needs no database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.-History:DokuWiki was created by...

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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| UTF-8

UTF-8

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| PHP

PHP

| File system

File system

A file system is a means to organize data expected to be retained after a program terminates by providing procedures to store, retrieve and update data, as well as manage the available space on the device which contain it. A file system organizes data in an efficient manner and is tuned to the...

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EditMe

EditMe is a wiki hosting service based in Westborough, Massachusetts. The service launched in August 2003, and the company officially incorporated in November 2005...

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...

| MySQL

MySQL

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FlexWiki

FlexWiki was a wiki engine written primarily by David Ornstein. The code was first released in September 2004. Development ceased sometime in 2009.The engine is open source, licensed under IBM's Common Public License...

| David Ornstein
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Common Public License

In computing, the CPL is a free software / open-source software license published by IBM. The Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative have approved the license terms of the CPL....

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| ASP.NET

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...

, C#
| File system

File system

, Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...

TWiki

TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal...

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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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UTF-8

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| Perl

Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...

| File system

File system

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Gitit (software)

Gitit is a form of wiki software employing git or other modern Distributed revision control systems to manage wiki history, and the document conversion system to manage markup - among other things permitting the inclusion of LaTeX mathematical markup....

| John MacFarlane and community
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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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UTF-8

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| Haskell

Haskell (programming language)

Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose purely functional programming language, with non-strict semantics and strong static typing. It is named after logician Haskell Curry. In Haskell, "a function is a first-class citizen" of the programming language. As a functional programming language, the...

| Git

Git (software)

Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...

, now also Darcs

Darcs

Darcs is a distributed revision control system created by David Roundy; it was designed to replace traditional, centralized source control systems such as CVS and Subversion...

, Mercurial

Mercurial

Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language, but includes a binary diff implementation written in C. It is supported on Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux...

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Gollum

Gollum is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He was introduced in the author's fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became an important supporting character in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings....

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MIT License

The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software provided all copies of the licensed software include a copy of the MIT License terms...

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UTF-8

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| Git

Git (software)

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Ikiwiki

ikiwiki is a free, open source wiki application, designed by Joey Hess. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later...

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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Perl

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Git (software)

or Subversion or 6+ others
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| | Instiki

Instiki

Instiki is wiki software that runs on Ruby on Rails.- Features :* Regular expression search* Revisions* Export to HTML in a zip* RSS feeds* Multiple webs* Password-protected site* Reference tracker* Textile and Markdown formatting...

| David Heinemeier Hansson

David Heinemeier Hansson

David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki...

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Ruby License

The Ruby License is the open-source license applied to the Ruby programming language and also available to be used in other projects.The Free Software Foundation comments:...

JAMWiki

JAMWiki is wiki software built around the standard components of Java, servlets and JSP. It was written by Ryan Holliday and released under the LGPL...

MediaWiki

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| LGPL

GNU Lesser General Public License

The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License...

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UTF-8

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| Java

Java (programming language)

Jive Software

Jive Software is a software company in the social business software industry based in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2001, Jive maintains additional offices in Portland, OR, Boulder, CO, Frankfurt, Germany, Tel Aviv, Israel, and London, UK.-Products:...

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...

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UTF-8

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| Java EE/Java

Java (programming language)

| SQL

SQL

SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....

Java (programming language)

| File system

File system

, XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

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JSPWiki

JSPWiki is wiki software built around the standard J2EE components of Java, servlets and JSP. It was written by Janne Jalkanen and released under the LGPL. It is currently undergoing incubation with Apache and its license has been changed to the Apache License. The Sun Java System Portal Server...

| Janne Jalkanen
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| Apache Public License 2.0
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| UTF-8

UTF-8

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| Java

Java (programming language)

| Flat-file, RCS

Revision Control System

The Revision Control System is a software implementation of revision control that automates the storing, retrieval, logging, identification, and merging of revisions. RCS is useful for text that is revised frequently, for example programs, documentation, procedural graphics, papers, and form...

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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UTF-8

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| Ruby

Ruby (programming language)

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto...

| Git

Git (software)

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MediaWiki

| Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is an American non-profit charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, and organized under the laws of the state of Florida, where it was initially based...

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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| UTF-8

UTF-8

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| PHP

PHP

| MySQL

MySQL

, PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...

, SQLite

SQLite

SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard...

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| | Midgard Wiki

Midgard (software)

Midgard is an open source persistent storage framework. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.Midgard also ships with MidCOM content management system built on the Midgard framework...

GNU Lesser General Public License

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PHP

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MySQL

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Revision Control System

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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,...

| Jürgen Hermann; Thomas Waldmann; ...
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| PikiPiki
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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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| UTF-8

UTF-8

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| Python

Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...

Perl

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| UTF-8

UTF-8

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| Perl

Perl

| PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

, SQLite

SQLite

, MySQL

MySQL

UseModWiki

UseModWiki is a wiki engine written in the Perl programming language. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Something similar to the interface can be seen in MediaWiki with the classic skin.- History...

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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UTF-8

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| Perl

Perl

UTF-8

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| PHP

PHP

| MogileFS, Squid, MySQL

MySQL

, Pound

Pound (networking)

Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program and application firewall suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution. Developed by an IT security company, it has a strong emphasis on security. The original intent on developing Pound was to allow distributing the load among...

, lighttpd

Lighttpd

lighttpd is an open-source web server more optimized for speed-critical environments than common products while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible...

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PhpWiki

PhpWiki is a web-based wiki software application.It began as a clone of WikiWikiWeb and was the first wiki written in PHP.PhpWiki has been used to edit and format paper books for publication.-History:...

WikiWikiWeb

WikiWikiWeb is a term that has been used to refer to four things: the first wiki, or user-editable website, launched on 25 March 1995 by Ward Cunningham as part of the Portland Pattern Repository ; the Perl-based application that was used to run it, also developed by Cunningham, which was the first...

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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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| ISO8859-1, UTF-8

UTF-8

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| PHP

PHP

| Berkeley DB

Berkeley DB

Berkeley DB is a computer software library that provides a high-performance embedded database for key/value data. Berkeley DB is a programmatic software library written in C with API bindings for C++, PHP, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Smalltalk, and most other programming languages...

, Flat-file, MySQL

MySQL

, PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

, Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

, Oracle 8, Firebird
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Pier (software)

Pier is a free and open source content management system written in Smalltalk using the Seaside web application framework.Pier is written with objects from top to bottom. Pier is based on Magritte, a meta-description framework...

Smalltalk

Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming language. Smalltalk was created as the language to underpin the "new world" of computing exemplified by "human–computer symbiosis." It was designed and created in part for educational use, more so for constructionist...

, Squeak

Squeak

The Squeak programming language is a Smalltalk implementation. It is object-oriented, class-based and reflective.It was derived directly from Smalltalk-80 by a group at Apple Computer that included some of the original Smalltalk-80 developers...

| Image-based, and pluggable
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PmWiki

PmWiki is wiki software written by Patrick R. Michaud in the PHP programming language. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.-Design focus:...

| Patrick Michaud
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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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UTF-8

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| PHP

PHP

| Flat-file. MySQL, SQLite (plug-ins)
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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...

Proprietary software

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| UTF-8

UTF-8

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| Metakit

Metakit

Metakit is an embedded database library with a small footprint. It fills the gap between flat-file, relational, object-oriented, and tree-structured databases, supporting relational joins, serialization, nested structures, and instant schema evolution...

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Qontext

Qontext is a venture of Pramati Technologies, and operates out of its offices in Mountain View, California and Hyderabad, India. The company is a global provider of on-demand social networking software for small to large multi-national companies and for ISVs seeking to add social features to their...

Proprietary software

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| UTF-8

UTF-8

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| Java

Java (programming language)

| Amazon Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services . EC2 allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications...

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| | 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...

| eTouch Systems

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....

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Proprietary software

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Java (programming language)

| SQL

SQL

SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....

/LDAP
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ScrewTurn Wiki

ScrewTurn Wiki is open source Wiki software that runs on the Windows ASP.NET platform. It is written in C# and by default does not require a database, though SQL Server and MySQL are supported by the use of plugins....

ASP.NET

, C#
| MySql

MySQL

, Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

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| Microsoft
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Proprietary software

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| UTF-8

UTF-8

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| ASP.NET

ASP.NET

, C#
| Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

or Windows Internal Database

Windows Internal Database

Windows Internal Database is a variant of SQL Server Express 2005 that is included with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and is included with other free Microsoft products released after 2007 that require an SQL Server database backend...

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Proprietary software

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UTF-8

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ASP.NET

, C#
| Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

or Windows Internal Database

Windows Internal Database

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| ontoprise GmbH
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| MediaWiki
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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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UTF-8

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PHP

| MySQL

MySQL

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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...

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Perl

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PostgreSQL

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Swiki

Swiki is wiki software written in Squeak. It is used heavily by the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing. It is also used in K-12 education and has been used successfully with 4th graders and higher...

| Mark Guzdial

Mark Guzdial

Mark Joseph Guzdial is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the College of Computing and the GVU Center. He is best known for his research in the fields of computer science education and the learning sciences...

; Jochen Rick
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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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Squeak

| File system

File system

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ThoughtFarmer

ThoughtFarmer is a commercial social intranet software product developed by OpenRoad Communications Ltd. in Vancouver, BC, Canada.ThoughtFarmer is collaborative enterprise 2.0 software built on ASP.NET, for on-premise use behind the firewall. ThoughtFarmer is designed to be a turnkey solution to...

UTF-8

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ASP.NET

, C#
| Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

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| | TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki is an open source single page application wiki. A single HTML file contains CSS, JavaScript, and the content. The content is divided into a series of sections, or Tiddlers. A user is encouraged to read a TiddlyWiki by following links rather than sequentially scrolling down the...

| Jeremy Ruston
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| BSD

BSD licenses

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses. The original license was used for the Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix-like operating system after which it is named....

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| UTF-8

UTF-8

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| JavaScript

JavaScript

JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

| Single file, MySQL (mod)
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| | TigerWiki

TigerWiki

TigerWiki was a minimalist open source flat file wiki software written in PHP by Chabel. Based on roWiki, it takes its basis while adding several functionalities such as password protection and the management of page revisions....

| Chabel.org
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| 2.19
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| roWiki
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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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PHP

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File system

GNU Lesser General Public License

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UTF-8

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PHP

| MySQL

MySQL

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| | Traction TeamPage

Traction TeamPage

Traction TeamPage is a proprietary enterprise 2.0 social software product developed by Traction Software Inc of Providence Rhode Island.TeamPage is one of the first products in the enterprise blog and wiki market, with Traction release 1.0 shipped in 1999....

Proprietary software

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UTF-8

, ...
| Supports multi-lingual content
(and supports i18n)
| Java SE/Java

Java (programming language)

| Flat File and File System
Oracle 10G RDB option
WebDAV for Attachments
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| | TWiki

TWiki

TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal...

| Peter Thoeny
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| 5.0.2
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| JosWiki
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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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| ISO8859-1, UTF-8

UTF-8

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| Perl

Perl

| Flat-file, RCS

Revision Control System

, pluggable storage backend
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| | UseModWiki

UseModWiki

| Clifford Adams
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| 1.0.5
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| AtisWiki
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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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| Perl

Perl

| Flat-file
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| | WackoWiki

WackoWiki

WackoWiki is a small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual Wiki-engine based on Wakka Wiki written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. WackoWiki has an with support for multiple languages, easy installer, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache...

WakkaWiki

WakkaWiki is a very small wiki engine written in PHP that is easy to install, hack, and maintain. It was originally developed by Hendrik Mans, creator of the PlanetCrap discussion community, with help from Carlo Zottmann....

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PHP

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MySQL

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! | Wiki Server

Wiki Server

Wiki Server is a set of services which ships with Mac OS X Server v10.5 and v10.6. Mac OS X Server includes web-based Wiki, Weblog, Calendaring, and Contact services. Additionally, it includes a Cocoa application called Directory which allows directory viewing as well as enabling of group...

Proprietary software

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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...

UTF-8

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| PHP

PHP

| MySQL

MySQL

, MogileFS
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! | Wikiwig
| Steve Goldman (Formerly Starcrouz)
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| R5.01
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| Wikiwig 4.x
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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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PHP

| MySQL

MySQL

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! | WikkaWiki

WikkaWiki

WikkaWiki is a free, lightweight, and standards-compliant wiki engine. Written in PHP, it uses MySQL to store pages. WikkaWiki is a fork of Wakka Wiki to which a number of new features have been added...

WakkaWiki

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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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| ISO8859-1
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| PHP

PHP

| MySQL

MySQL

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! | wiki, WikiWikiWeb

WikiWikiWeb

| Ward Cunningham

Ward Cunningham

Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on the website of his software consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham , on...

| 1995
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| Apple HyperCard

HyperCard

HyperCard is an application program created by Bill Atkinson for Apple Computer, Inc. that was among the first successful hypermedia systems before the World Wide Web. It combines database capabilities with a graphical, flexible, user-modifiable interface. HyperCard also features HyperTalk, written...

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...

UTF-8

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Java (programming language)

| PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

, MySQL

MySQL

, Oracle, Apache Derby, HSQLDB
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| | ZWiki

Zwiki

Zwiki is a wiki engine written in Python and based on the Zope web application server. It was developed by Joyful Systems and contributors from around the world, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License....

| Simon Michael
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| 0.61.0
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| GPL

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

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UTF-8

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| Python

Python (programming language)

| ZODB - Zope Object Database
|-class="sortbottom"
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! Creator
! First public release date
! Latest stable release
! Stable release date
! Predecessor
! Cost (USD)
! Software license
! Open source
! Encoding
! Multilingual
! Programming language
! Data backend

Data management

Data management comprises all the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource.- Overview :The official definition provided by DAMA International, the professional organization for those in the data management profession, is: "Data Resource Management is the development and execution...

Target audience

Wiki software	Public	Private	Corporate/Enterprise	Education	Intranet	Personal	Scientific/Technical/Mathematical
BrainKeeper BrainKeeper BrainKeeper, Inc. is a privately held collaboration software company located in Fairfax, VA. The company provides a Software-as-a-Service collaboration tool targeted towards companies and organizations. The product is most often compared to other wiki-based web 2.0 solutions such as Atlassian and...
CamelWiki
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...
codeBeamer CodeBeamer (software) codeBeamer is a web based Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management tool for distributed software development, written in Java. It is developed and marketed by Intland Software. Its license is proprietary, but free versions and free hosting options are available...
Confluence
coWiki CoWiki coWiki is an inactive wiki engine implemented in PHP 5 and using a MySQL database. It is licenced under the GNU General Public License. coWiki uses a markup language similar to that of TWiki....
MindTouch Deki 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:...
DokuWiki DokuWiki DokuWiki is a wiki application aimed at small companies’ documentation needs. DokuWiki is licensed under GPL 2 and written in the programming language PHP. It works on plain text files and thus needs no database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.-History:DokuWiki was created by...
EditMe EditMe EditMe is a wiki hosting service based in Westborough, Massachusetts. The service launched in August 2003, and the company officially incorporated in November 2005...
FlexWiki FlexWiki FlexWiki was a wiki engine written primarily by David Ornstein. The code was first released in September 2004. Development ceased sometime in 2009.The engine is open source, licensed under IBM's Common Public License...
Foswiki
Instiki Instiki Instiki is wiki software that runs on Ruby on Rails.- Features :* Regular expression search* Revisions* Export to HTML in a zip* RSS feeds* Multiple webs* Password-protected site* Reference tracker* Textile and Markdown formatting...
Gitit Gitit (software) Gitit is a form of wiki software employing git or other modern Distributed revision control systems to manage wiki history, and the document conversion system to manage markup - among other things permitting the inclusion of LaTeX mathematical markup....							Inbuilt support for 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... math; syntax highlighting for code blocks.
JAMWiki JAMWiki JAMWiki is wiki software built around the standard components of Java, servlets and JSP. It was written by Ryan Holliday and released under the LGPL...
Jive SBS
JotSpot
JSPWiki JSPWiki JSPWiki is wiki software built around the standard J2EE components of Java, servlets and JSP. It was written by Janne Jalkanen and released under the LGPL. It is currently undergoing incubation with Apache and its license has been changed to the Apache License. The Sun Java System Portal Server...
Juli
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...		http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Simple_private_wiki
Midgard Wiki Midgard (software) Midgard is an open source persistent storage framework. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.Midgard also ships with MidCOM content management system built on the Midgard framework...
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,...
MojoMojo
Noösphere PlanetMath PlanetMath is a free, collaborative, online mathematics encyclopedia. The emphasis is on rigour, openness, pedagogy, real-time content, interlinked content, and also community of about 24,000 people with various maths interests. Intended to be comprehensive, the project is hosted by the Digital...							Latex input
OddMuseWiki
PBworks
PhpWiki PhpWiki PhpWiki is a web-based wiki software application.It began as a clone of WikiWikiWeb and was the first wiki written in PHP.PhpWiki has been used to edit and format paper books for publication.-History:...
PmWiki PmWiki PmWiki is wiki software written by Patrick R. Michaud in the PHP programming language. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.-Design focus:...
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...
Qontext Qontext Qontext is a venture of Pramati Technologies, and operates out of its offices in Mountain View, California and Hyderabad, India. The company is a global provider of on-demand social networking software for small to large multi-national companies and for ISVs seeking to add social features to their...
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...
ScrewTurn Wiki ScrewTurn Wiki ScrewTurn Wiki is open source Wiki software that runs on the Windows ASP.NET platform. It is written in C# and by default does not require a database, though SQL Server and MySQL are supported by the use of plugins....
SharePoint Foundation
SharePoint Server
SMW+ SMW+ SMW+ is an open source software bundle composed of the wiki application MediaWiki along with a number of its extensions. It is produced by the German software company Ontoprise GmbH. SMW+'s extensions include, most notably, Semantic MediaWiki and the...
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...
Swiki Swiki Swiki is wiki software written in Squeak. It is used heavily by the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing. It is also used in K-12 education and has been used successfully with 4th graders and higher...
ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer is a commercial social intranet software product developed by OpenRoad Communications Ltd. in Vancouver, BC, Canada.ThoughtFarmer is collaborative enterprise 2.0 software built on ASP.NET, for on-premise use behind the firewall. ThoughtFarmer is designed to be a turnkey solution to...
TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki is an open source single page application wiki. A single HTML file contains CSS, JavaScript, and the content. The content is divided into a series of sections, or Tiddlers. A user is encouraged to read a TiddlyWiki by following links rather than sequentially scrolling down the...
TigerWiki TigerWiki TigerWiki was a minimalist open source flat file wiki software written in PHP by Chabel. Based on roWiki, it takes its basis while adding several functionalities such as password protection and the management of page revisions....
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware
Traction TeamPage Traction TeamPage Traction TeamPage is a proprietary enterprise 2.0 social software product developed by Traction Software Inc of Providence Rhode Island.TeamPage is one of the first products in the enterprise blog and wiki market, with Traction release 1.0 shipped in 1999....
TWiki TWiki TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal...
UseModWiki UseModWiki UseModWiki is a wiki engine written in the Perl programming language. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Something similar to the interface can be seen in MediaWiki with the classic skin.- History...
WackoWiki WackoWiki WackoWiki is a small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual Wiki-engine based on Wakka Wiki written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. WackoWiki has an with support for multiple languages, easy installer, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache...
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...
Wikiwig
WikkaWiki WikkaWiki WikkaWiki is a free, lightweight, and standards-compliant wiki engine. Written in PHP, it uses MySQL to store pages. WikkaWiki is a fork of Wakka Wiki to which a number of new features have been added...
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...
ZWiki Zwiki Zwiki is a wiki engine written in Python and based on the Zope web application server. It was developed by Joyful Systems and contributors from around the world, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License....
Wiki software	Public	Private	Corporate/Enterprise	Education	Intranet	Personal	Scientific/Technical/Mathematical

Features 1

	File uploading / attachments	Spam prevention	Page access control	Inline HTML	User-customizable interface	Document renaming
BrainKeeper BrainKeeper BrainKeeper, Inc. is a privately held collaboration software company located in Fairfax, VA. The company provides a Software-as-a-Service collaboration tool targeted towards companies and organizations. The product is most often compared to other wiki-based web 2.0 solutions such as Atlassian and...		,			, templates and themes, html and css
CamelWiki		, Verification code			, CSS
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...		, CAPTCHA			, templates and themes, html and css
codeBeamer CodeBeamer (software) codeBeamer is a web based Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management tool for distributed software development, written in Java. It is developed and marketed by Intland Software. Its license is proprietary, but free versions and free hosting options are available...				optional	- JSP pages + CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...	, links don't break
Confluence		, CAPTCHA		optional	, templates and themes + CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...	, links are updated
coWiki CoWiki coWiki is an inactive wiki engine implemented in PHP 5 and using a MySQL database. It is licenced under the GNU General Public License. coWiki uses a markup language similar to that of TWiki....			, due to UNIX-style permissions		- hand-edited templates, document "Print version"	, all pages are seamlessly updated
MindTouch Deki 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:...				optional
DokuWiki DokuWiki DokuWiki is a wiki application aimed at small companies’ documentation needs. DokuWiki is licensed under GPL 2 and written in the programming language PHP. It works on plain text files and thus needs no database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.-History:DokuWiki was created by...		, blacklist	, optional	, optional	, templates, CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language... , PHP; heavily documented PHP API	, plugin
EditMe EditMe EditMe is a wiki hosting service based in Westborough, Massachusetts. The service launched in August 2003, and the company officially incorporated in November 2005...		, CAPTCHA	,	,	, templates, CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language... , [XHTML], [JavaScript]	,
FlexWiki FlexWiki FlexWiki was a wiki engine written primarily by David Ornstein. The code was first released in September 2004. Development ceased sometime in 2009.The engine is open source, licensed under IBM's Common Public License...		, blacklist, CAPTCHA, nofollow		, plugin	- CSS, templates, WikiTalk	, old page becomes a redirect
Foswiki		, ACL			, skins
Gitit Gitit (software) Gitit is a form of wiki software employing git or other modern Distributed revision control systems to manage wiki history, and the document conversion system to manage markup - among other things permitting the inclusion of LaTeX mathematical markup....		, reCAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA is a system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University's main Pittsburgh campus. It uses CAPTCHA to help digitize the text of books while protecting websites from bots attempting to access restricted areas. On September 16, 2009, Google acquired reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is currently...		,	- Templates, CSS	, old page becomes a redirect
Instiki Instiki Instiki is wiki software that runs on Ruby on Rails.- Features :* Regular expression search* Revisions* Export to HTML in a zip* RSS feeds* Multiple webs* Password-protected site* Reference tracker* Textile and Markdown formatting...					- CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
	File uploading / attachments	Spam prevention	Page access control	Inline HTML	User-customizable interface	Document renaming
JAMWiki JAMWiki JAMWiki is wiki software built around the standard components of Java, servlets and JSP. It was written by Ryan Holliday and released under the LGPL...		, content by regular expressions		, optional	- templates and editable CSS stylesheet topic	, old page becomes a redirect
Jive SBS		optional	, extensive permissions API			, scheduled for 3.0
JotSpot				, optional	- CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
JSPWiki JSPWiki JSPWiki is wiki software built around the standard J2EE components of Java, servlets and JSP. It was written by Janne Jalkanen and released under the LGPL. It is currently undergoing incubation with Apache and its license has been changed to the Apache License. The Sun Java System Portal Server...		, content by regular expressions, CAPTCHA, Akismet, bot detection		, optional	- templates
Juli				,	- Templates, CSS
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...		, URL blacklist, word blacklist, IP address blocking, captchas CAPTCHA A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing as an attempt to ensure that the response is generated by a person. The process usually involves one computer asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade...			- many features are user-customizable, templates	, old page becomes a redirect
Midgard Wiki Midgard (software) Midgard is an open source persistent storage framework. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.Midgard also ships with MidCOM content management system built on the Midgard framework...					templates, CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
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,...		, BadContent filtering via Regular Expressions, Textchas	, very flexible ACLs, wiki-editable groups	- safe	- Themes, templates, CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language... , XSLT XSL Transformations XSLT is a declarative, XML-based language used for the transformation of XML documents. The original document is not changed; rather, a new document is created based on the content of an existing one. The new document may be serialized by the processor in standard XML syntax or in another format,... , user editable navigation	, old page can be a redirect
MojoMojo		, CAPTCHA	, Cascading ACL control allowing stewardship of topics	- safe	- Themes, CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...	, current: page redirect, soon: Node moving
Near-Time					, templates, html, custom navigation portal, custom data fields, CSS
OddMuseWiki				, plugin	CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
PBworks		- passwords, SSO-capable integration, ACL Access control list An access control list , with respect to a computer file system, is a list of permissions attached to an object. An ACL specifies which users or system processes are granted access to objects, as well as what operations are allowed on given objects. Each entry in a typical ACL specifies a subject... s, IP address whitelisting/blacklisting		, and plugins	Partial - CSS CSS -Computing:Cascading Style Sheets, a language used to describe the style of document presentations in web developmentCentral Structure Store in the PHIGS 3D API*Closed source software, software that is not distributed with source code...
PhpWiki PhpWiki PhpWiki is a web-based wiki software application.It began as a clone of WikiWikiWeb and was the first wiki written in PHP.PhpWiki has been used to edit and format paper books for publication.-History:...		, CPAN CPAN CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of nearly 100,000 modules of software written in Perl, as well as documentation for it. It has a presence on the World Wide Web at and is mirrored worldwide at more than 200 locations... Blog::SpamAssassin		plugin	themes; un-documented
PmWiki PmWiki PmWiki is wiki software written by Patrick R. Michaud in the PHP programming language. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.-Design focus:...				, module	, themes, per page/per group CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language... , ...	, module
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...		, registration			, templates, themes, CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language... , ...
Qontext Qontext Qontext is a venture of Pramati Technologies, and operates out of its offices in Mountain View, California and Hyderabad, India. The company is a global provider of on-demand social networking software for small to large multi-national companies and for ISVs seeking to add social features to their...		, via registration and nofollow Nofollow nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index...			, CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language... and templates
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...
SharePoint Foundation
SharePoint Server
SMW+ SMW+ SMW+ is an open source software bundle composed of the wiki application MediaWiki along with a number of its extensions. It is produced by the German software company Ontoprise GmbH. SMW+'s extensions include, most notably, Semantic MediaWiki and the...					Templates, skins, css, special wikipages (forms)	(old page becomes a redirect)
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...
	File uploading / attachments	Spam prevention	Page access control	Inline HTML	User-customizable interface	Document renaming
Swiki Swiki Swiki is wiki software written in Squeak. It is used heavily by the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing. It is also used in K-12 education and has been used successfully with 4th graders and higher...		, block IP addresses, words, UserIDs			For AniAniWebs, CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...	, updating all backlinks
ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer is a commercial social intranet software product developed by OpenRoad Communications Ltd. in Vancouver, BC, Canada.ThoughtFarmer is collaborative enterprise 2.0 software built on ASP.NET, for on-premise use behind the firewall. ThoughtFarmer is designed to be a turnkey solution to...		N/A
TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki is an open source single page application wiki. A single HTML file contains CSS, JavaScript, and the content. The content is divided into a series of sections, or Tiddlers. A user is encouraged to read a TiddlyWiki by following links rather than sequentially scrolling down the...	, plugin			, plugin	, themes, user CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language... , modules
TigerWiki TigerWiki TigerWiki was a minimalist open source flat file wiki software written in PHP by Chabel. Based on roWiki, it takes its basis while adding several functionalities such as password protection and the management of page revisions....		, to be coded	, password protection		- style-sheets, template
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware		, CAPTCHA for registration and anonymous edits or comments, encrypted email addresses.			themes, user CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language... , modules
Traction TeamPage Traction TeamPage Traction TeamPage is a proprietary enterprise 2.0 social software product developed by Traction Software Inc of Providence Rhode Island.TeamPage is one of the first products in the enterprise blog and wiki market, with Traction release 1.0 shipped in 1999....	, with WebDAV versioning	, CAPTCHA for registration, block lists		Safe	, workspace templates, color templates, and developer tools	, links are updated automatically and name history maintained
TWiki TWiki TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal...					templates, skins, user CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...	, fixing backlinks
UseModWiki UseModWiki UseModWiki is a wiki engine written in the Perl programming language. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Something similar to the interface can be seen in MediaWiki with the classic skin.- History...		, IP address blacklist	?	?	CSS Cascading Style Sheets Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...	, admins only
WackoWiki WackoWiki WackoWiki is a small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual Wiki-engine based on Wakka Wiki written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. WackoWiki has an with support for multiple languages, easy installer, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache...		, referrer blacklist		- configurable/safe	themes, style-sheets
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...		, CAPTCHA			, themes, HTML, CSS
Wikiwig		,Captcha
WikkaWiki WikkaWiki WikkaWiki is a free, lightweight, and standards-compliant wiki engine. Written in PHP, it uses MySQL to store pages. WikkaWiki is a fork of Wakka Wiki to which a number of new features have been added...		, referrer blacklist (module), HTTP REQUEST analysis (module)		, configurable/safe	, CSS stylesheets	, old pages can be redirected
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...		, Captcha, ACL Access control list An access control list , with respect to a computer file system, is a list of permissions attached to an object. An ACL specifies which users or system processes are granted access to objects, as well as what operations are allowed on given objects. Each entry in a typical ACL specifies a subject...			style-sheets, templates, themes, skin extensions
ZWiki Zwiki Zwiki is a wiki engine written in Python and based on the Zope web application server. It was developed by Joyful Systems and contributors from around the world, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License....					style-sheets, templates, skins
	File uploading / attachments	Spam prevention	Page access control	Inline HTML	User-customizable interface	Document renaming

Features 2

	WYSIWYG editing	Web feed Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... s	Extensibility	Cross-wiki support	Wiki farm 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	Outliner Outliner An outliner is a computer program that allows text to be organized into discrete sections that are related in a tree structure or hierarchy. Text may be collapsed into a node, or expanded and edited.... Mechanism	Other features
BrainKeeper BrainKeeper BrainKeeper, Inc. is a privately held collaboration software company located in Fairfax, VA. The company provides a Software-as-a-Service collaboration tool targeted towards companies and organizations. The product is most often compared to other wiki-based web 2.0 solutions such as Atlassian and...		, RSS
CamelWiki
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...		, RSS
codeBeamer CodeBeamer (software) codeBeamer is a web based Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management tool for distributed software development, written in Java. It is developed and marketed by Intland Software. Its license is proprietary, but free versions and free hosting options are available...	with TinyMCE TinyMCE TinyMCE, also known as the Tiny Moxiecode Content Editor, is a platform-independent web-based JavaScript/HTML WYSIWYG editor control, released as open source software under the LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML textarea fields or other HTML elements to editor instances... or Microsoft Word Microsoft Word Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS , the Apple Macintosh , the AT&T Unix PC , Atari ST , SCO UNIX,...		, Java Plug-ins
Confluence		, RSS	Java Plug-ins, User Macros in Apache Velocity
coWiki CoWiki coWiki is an inactive wiki engine implemented in PHP 5 and using a MySQL database. It is licenced under the GNU General Public License. coWiki uses a markup language similar to that of TWiki....		, RSS http://www.cowiki.org/184.html	plugins via an OOP interface
MindTouch Deki 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:...		, RSS, XML, JSON	API, Service Oriented Architecture
DokuWiki DokuWiki DokuWiki is a wiki application aimed at small companies’ documentation needs. DokuWiki is licensed under GPL 2 and written in the programming language PHP. It works on plain text files and thus needs no database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.-History:DokuWiki was created by...	Quickbuttons and a preview mode exist however	, RSS/Atom http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:syndication	, Plugin API				Look at the Website
EditMe EditMe EditMe is a wiki hosting service based in Westborough, Massachusetts. The service launched in August 2003, and the company officially incorporated in November 2005...		, RSS	, Modules, embedded JavaScript API
FlexWiki FlexWiki FlexWiki was a wiki engine written primarily by David Ornstein. The code was first released in September 2004. Development ceased sometime in 2009.The engine is open source, licensed under IBM's Common Public License...		, RSS	ASP Active Server Pages Active Server Pages , also known as Classic ASP or ASP Classic, was Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated Web pages. Initially released as an add-on to Internet Information Services via the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack Active Server Pages (ASP), also known as Classic... , WikiTalk, .Net Reflection plugins				Forms, Scripting, Integrated Weblog and Threaded Message Forum
Gitit Gitit (software) Gitit is a form of wiki software employing git or other modern Distributed revision control systems to manage wiki history, and the document conversion system to manage markup - among other things permitting the inclusion of LaTeX mathematical markup....		Markdown Markdown Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz allowing people "to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML "... and other lightweight markup languages
UseModWiki UseModWiki UseModWiki is a wiki engine written in the Perl programming language. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Something similar to the interface can be seen in MediaWiki with the classic skin.- History...	?		extensions
Instiki Instiki Instiki is wiki software that runs on Ruby on Rails.- Features :* Regular expression search* Revisions* Export to HTML in a zip* RSS feeds* Multiple webs* Password-protected site* Reference tracker* Textile and Markdown formatting...		, RSS	fairly trivial with minimal Ruby knowledge	, can use different (administrator-set) markup languages.
	WYSIWYG editing	Web feed Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... s	Extensibility	Cross-wiki support	Wiki farms	Outliner Outliner An outliner is a computer program that allows text to be organized into discrete sections that are related in a tree structure or hierarchy. Text may be collapsed into a node, or expanded and edited.... Mechanism	Other features
JAMWiki JAMWiki JAMWiki is wiki software built around the standard components of Java, servlets and JSP. It was written by Ryan Holliday and released under the LGPL...	, optional editing buttons	, RSS					Plugin wiki syntax parser (default is Mediawiki syntax)
Jive SBS			, both functionality and theme via plugins
JotSpot		, RSS, per page	plugins, server-side Javascript
JSPWiki JSPWiki JSPWiki is wiki software built around the standard J2EE components of Java, servlets and JSP. It was written by Janne Jalkanen and released under the LGPL. It is currently undergoing incubation with Apache and its license has been changed to the Apache License. The Sun Java System Portal Server...	, alpha	, RSS, per page	plugins, filters, providers				Weblog integration
Juli
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...	, via extensions	, RSS/Atom	actions, handlers
Midgard Wiki Midgard (software) Midgard is an open source persistent storage framework. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.Midgard also ships with MidCOM content management system built on the Midgard framework...		, RSS, all changes	PHP PHP PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document... component architecture				CMS integration
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,...	, v1.5+	, RSS, last changes	different plugin types	, selectable parsers
MojoMojo	, With live preview	, RSS	, plugins and custom additions types	, Multiple markup parsers available
OddMuseWiki	, plugin		plugins
PBworks		, RSS/Atom	API, AuthAPI, plugins, wikilets
PhpWiki PhpWiki PhpWiki is a web-based wiki software application.It began as a clone of WikiWikiWeb and was the first wiki written in PHP.PhpWiki has been used to edit and format paper books for publication.-History:...	, module	RSS/Atom/RDF: global, per page or per user	plugins				support all databases
PmWiki PmWiki PmWiki is wiki software written by Patrick R. Michaud in the PHP programming language. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.-Design focus:...	. GUI buttons and Preview mode exist however	RSS/Atom/RDF (option): global, per namespace, per page or per watchlist; feed readers (plugins)	very, 500+ plugins and configuration recipes	WikiCreole (option), Markdown Markdown Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz allowing people "to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML "... (plugin)
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...		, RSS/Atom
Qontext Qontext Qontext is a venture of Pramati Technologies, and operates out of its offices in Mountain View, California and Hyderabad, India. The company is a global provider of on-demand social networking software for small to large multi-national companies and for ISVs seeking to add social features to their...		, 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...
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...		, RSS feeds,	plugins
SharePoint Foundation		, RSS feeds	Themes, WebParts, API	(limited)			Lists, CMS, Weblog, Tagging, Discussions Notifications, Reports, Workflow, Enterprise level security
SharePoint Server		, RSS feeds	Themes, WebParts, API	(limited)			Forms(InfoPath), Lists, CMS, Weblog, Tagging, Discussions, Notifications, Reports, Enterprise level security, Workflow, Enterprise Search
SMW+ SMW+ SMW+ is an open source software bundle composed of the wiki application MediaWiki along with a number of its extensions. It is produced by the German software company Ontoprise GmbH. SMW+'s extensions include, most notably, Semantic MediaWiki and the...		, via Data Import	, special purpose extensions
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...		, RSS feeds, Google/Technorati search results	using REST/SOAP APIs
	WYSIWYG editing	Web feed Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... s	Extensibility	Cross-wiki support	Wiki farms	Outliner Outliner An outliner is a computer program that allows text to be organized into discrete sections that are related in a tree structure or hierarchy. Text may be collapsed into a node, or expanded and edited.... Mechanism	Other features
Swiki Swiki Swiki is wiki software written in Squeak. It is used heavily by the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing. It is also used in K-12 education and has been used successfully with 4th graders and higher...			Some
ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer is a commercial social intranet software product developed by OpenRoad Communications Ltd. in Vancouver, BC, Canada.ThoughtFarmer is collaborative enterprise 2.0 software built on ASP.NET, for on-premise use behind the firewall. ThoughtFarmer is designed to be a turnkey solution to...			Plugins, API used by ThoughtFarmer Professional Services
TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki is an open source single page application wiki. A single HTML file contains CSS, JavaScript, and the content. The content is divided into a series of sections, or Tiddlers. A user is encouraged to read a TiddlyWiki by following links rather than sequentially scrolling down the...	, with FCKeditor FCKeditor CKEditor is an open source WYSIWYG text editor from CKSource that can be used in web pages. It aims to be lightweight and requires no client-side installation... or other plugin	, RSS	plugins
TigerWiki TigerWiki TigerWiki was a minimalist open source flat file wiki software written in PHP by Chabel. Based on roWiki, it takes its basis while adding several functionalities such as password protection and the management of page revisions....		, RSS with plugin	Code modification
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware	, with FCKeditor FCKeditor CKEditor is an open source WYSIWYG text editor from CKSource that can be used in web pages. It aims to be lightweight and requires no client-side installation... or via Quicktag insertion	, RSS/Atom/RDF	Hundreds of features, plugins, modules & mods
Traction TeamPage Traction TeamPage Traction TeamPage is a proprietary enterprise 2.0 social software product developed by Traction Software Inc of Providence Rhode Island.TeamPage is one of the first products in the enterprise blog and wiki market, with Traction release 1.0 shipped in 1999....		, Dynamic RSS inbound / outbound	Plug-in architecture for widgets, forms, interface and function modifications
TWiki TWiki TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal...	, pre-installed plugin	, RSS/Atom, with search string	400+ extensions; Plugin API for developers; TWiki markup/scripting for users to create wiki applications	, user selectable wiki syntax with EditSyntaxPlugin
UseModWiki UseModWiki UseModWiki is a wiki engine written in the Perl programming language. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Something similar to the interface can be seen in MediaWiki with the classic skin.- History...	?		extensions
WackoWiki WackoWiki WackoWiki is a small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual Wiki-engine based on Wakka Wiki written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. WackoWiki has an with support for multiple languages, easy installer, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache...	, Has toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts to create WikiMarkup, see: WikiEdit	, RSS	actions, handlers
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...		, RSS/Atom	API, widgets, single sign-on (SSO)
Wikiwig	, Xinha
WikkaWiki WikkaWiki WikkaWiki is a free, lightweight, and standards-compliant wiki engine. Written in PHP, it uses MySQL to store pages. WikkaWiki is a fork of Wakka Wiki to which a number of new features have been added...		, Single page/Comments/Global	, plugins, actions, handlers, menulets
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...	, using a custom powerful GWT-based editor	, RSS	, component, plugins, macros, scripts, applications	, based on WikiModel, support syntaxes from other wikis
ZWiki Zwiki Zwiki is a wiki engine written in Python and based on the Zope web application server. It was developed by Joyful Systems and contributors from around the world, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License....	, using Epoz	, RSS/Atom	all Zope Zope Zope is a free and open-source, object-oriented Web application server written in the Python programming language. Zope stands for "Z Object Publishing Environment", and was the first system using the now common object publishing methodology for the Web... plugins, 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... , and more
	WYSIWYG editing	Web feed Web feed A web feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation, which is performed by an aggregator... s	Extensibility	Cross-wiki support	Wiki farms	Outliner Outliner An outliner is a computer program that allows text to be organized into discrete sections that are related in a tree structure or hierarchy. Text may be collapsed into a node, or expanded and edited.... Mechanism	Other features

Installation

	Platform	Web-server required	Other software required	Installable to USB stick
BrainKeeper BrainKeeper BrainKeeper, Inc. is a privately held collaboration software company located in Fairfax, VA. The company provides a Software-as-a-Service collaboration tool targeted towards companies and organizations. The product is most often compared to other wiki-based web 2.0 solutions such as Atlassian and...	NA - hosted	None	NA
CamelWiki	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Any supporting CGI	Perl, MySQL or PostgreSQL
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...	NA - hosted	None	None
codeBeamer CodeBeamer (software) codeBeamer is a web based Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management tool for distributed software development, written in Java. It is developed and marketed by Intland Software. Its license is proprietary, but free versions and free hosting options are available...	Any OS that supports Java 1.5 and servlet 2.4	Tomcat included, or use your own servlet container.	Java 1.5
Confluence	Any OS that supports Java 1.4 and servlet 2.4	Tomcat included, or use your own servlet container.	Java 1.4
coWiki CoWiki coWiki is an inactive wiki engine implemented in PHP 5 and using a MySQL database. It is licenced under the GNU General Public License. coWiki uses a markup language similar to that of TWiki....	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Apache with PHP	MySQL, PHP
MindTouch Deki 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:...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Apache, IIS6, IIS7, IIS8	Mono, MySQl, PHP
DokuWiki DokuWiki DokuWiki is a wiki application aimed at small companies’ documentation needs. DokuWiki is licensed under GPL 2 and written in the programming language PHP. It works on plain text files and thus needs no database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki.-History:DokuWiki was created by...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Should work on any web server with PHP	PHP
FlexWiki FlexWiki FlexWiki was a wiki engine written primarily by David Ornstein. The code was first released in September 2004. Development ceased sometime in 2009.The engine is open source, licensed under IBM's Common Public License...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	IIS/Apache	ASP.Net/Mono
Gitit Gitit (software) Gitit is a form of wiki software employing git or other modern Distributed revision control systems to manage wiki history, and the document conversion system to manage markup - among other things permitting the inclusion of LaTeX mathematical markup....	Cross platform	Yes. Happstack; can also be used locally.	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... ; Versioning system like Git Git (software) Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on... , Darcs Darcs Darcs is a distributed revision control system created by David Roundy; it was designed to replace traditional, centralized source control systems such as CVS and Subversion... , or Mercurial Mercurial Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language, but includes a binary diff implementation written in C. It is supported on Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux...
Instiki Instiki Instiki is wiki software that runs on Ruby on Rails.- Features :* Regular expression search* Revisions* Export to HTML in a zip* RSS feeds* Multiple webs* Password-protected site* Reference tracker* Textile and Markdown formatting...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	None (built-in)	Ruby
	Platform	Web-server required	Other software required
JAMWiki JAMWiki JAMWiki is wiki software built around the standard components of Java, servlets and JSP. It was written by Ryan Holliday and released under the LGPL...	Any OS that supports Java 1.5 and servlet 2.4	Any servlet 2.4-compliant application server	Java 1.5
Jive SBS	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
JSPWiki JSPWiki JSPWiki is wiki software built around the standard J2EE components of Java, servlets and JSP. It was written by Janne Jalkanen and released under the LGPL. It is currently undergoing incubation with Apache and its license has been changed to the Apache License. The Sun Java System Portal Server...	Any OS that supports Java 1.5 and servlet 2.4	any servlet 2.4-compliant web server	Java 1.5
Juli	Cross platform	Not mandatory	Ruby, Git Git (software) Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...
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...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Any web server that supports PHP 5.1+	MySQL, PHP5
Midgard Wiki Midgard (software) Midgard is an open source persistent storage framework. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications.Midgard also ships with MidCOM content management system built on the Midgard framework...	Linux, Unix & others	Apache with PHP	MySQL, PHP
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,...	Linux, Macs, Unix, Windows & others	None for Desktop version	Python
MojoMojo	Linux, Macs, Unix, Windows, others	None - builtin server suitable for desktop or production use	SQL database (MySQL MySQL MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My... , PostgreSQL PostgreSQL PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software... , Sqlite SQLite SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard... )
OddMuseWiki	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Any web server with cgi support	Perl
PhpWiki PhpWiki PhpWiki is a web-based wiki software application.It began as a clone of WikiWikiWeb and was the first wiki written in PHP.PhpWiki has been used to edit and format paper books for publication.-History:...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Any Web-server with PHP	PHP
PmWiki PmWiki PmWiki is wiki software written by Patrick R. Michaud in the PHP programming language. It is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.-Design focus:...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Any Web-server with PHP, can run without a web server.	PHP
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...	Windows, Mac OS X, Linux	None (built-in)	None
Qontext Qontext Qontext is a venture of Pramati Technologies, and operates out of its offices in Mountain View, California and Hyderabad, India. The company is a global provider of on-demand social networking software for small to large multi-national companies and for ISVs seeking to add social features to their...	SAAS Software as a Service Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...	N/A	No	N/A
SharePoint Foundation	Windows Server	IIS	Optional SQL Server
SharePoint Server	Windows Server or SaaS	IIS or SaaS	Optional SQL Server
SMW+ SMW+ SMW+ is an open source software bundle composed of the wiki application MediaWiki along with a number of its extensions. It is produced by the German software company Ontoprise GmbH. SMW+'s extensions include, most notably, Semantic MediaWiki and the...	Linux Unix Windows & others	Apache or IIS with PHP 5.0+	MySQL PHP5
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...	NA - hosted	no, all required components included	no, all required components included
	Platform	Web-server required	Other software required
Swiki Swiki Swiki is wiki software written in Squeak. It is used heavily by the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing. It is also used in K-12 education and has been used successfully with 4th graders and higher...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	None—installs own server. Can coexist with IIS and Apache by running on alternate port	None
ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer ThoughtFarmer is a commercial social intranet software product developed by OpenRoad Communications Ltd. in Vancouver, BC, Canada.ThoughtFarmer is collaborative enterprise 2.0 software built on ASP.NET, for on-premise use behind the firewall. ThoughtFarmer is designed to be a turnkey solution to...	Windows & others	MS-Windows Server 2003 or 2008	MS SQL Server 2005 or 2008
TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki is an open source single page application wiki. A single HTML file contains CSS, JavaScript, and the content. The content is divided into a series of sections, or Tiddlers. A user is encouraged to read a TiddlyWiki by following links rather than sequentially scrolling down the...	Windows & others.	None	Runs in regular browser
TigerWiki TigerWiki TigerWiki was a minimalist open source flat file wiki software written in PHP by Chabel. Based on roWiki, it takes its basis while adding several functionalities such as password protection and the management of page revisions....	Linux, Unix & others	Any Web-server with PHP	PHP
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Apache with PHP	PHP
Traction TeamPage Traction TeamPage Traction TeamPage is a proprietary enterprise 2.0 social software product developed by Traction Software Inc of Providence Rhode Island.TeamPage is one of the first products in the enterprise blog and wiki market, with Traction release 1.0 shipped in 1999....	Any OS capable of running Java 2 Virtual Machine	None (Built-In)	None
TWiki TWiki TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal...	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 UseModWiki UseModWiki is a wiki engine written in the Perl programming language. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Pages in UseModWiki are stored in ordinary files, not in a relational database. Something similar to the interface can be seen in MediaWiki with the classic skin.- History...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Any web server with cgi support	Perl
WackoWiki WackoWiki WackoWiki is a small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual Wiki-engine based on Wakka Wiki written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. WackoWiki has an with support for multiple languages, easy installer, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Apache v1.3.x (v2 recommended), IIS	MySQL, PHP
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...	SaaS - hosted	None	None
Wikiwig	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Any with PHP	MySQL, PHP
WikkaWiki WikkaWiki WikkaWiki is a free, lightweight, and standards-compliant wiki engine. Written in PHP, it uses MySQL to store pages. WikkaWiki is a fork of Wakka Wiki to which a number of new features have been added...	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Any Web-server with PHP	MySQL/PHP
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...	Java Platform	Any Java EE webserver	Java
ZWiki Zwiki Zwiki is a wiki engine written in Python and based on the Zope web application server. It was developed by Joyful Systems and contributors from around the world, and is free software released under the GNU General Public License....	Linux, Unix, Windows & others	Zope	Python (included with most Zope installs)
	Platform	Web-server required	Other software required	Installable to USB stick

External links

Wiki.org, What Is Wiki - general Wiki info.
WikiMatrix.org - Comparison of wikis and features selected by the user.
Wiki Comparison grid - Comparison of wiki software in a shared and editable Google Spreadsheet
Wiki Affordances - Examination of the five key affordances that all modern, fully developed wikis share.

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