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