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

General info

Engine	License	Community project or Open-sourced by a company	Language	Storage	Can run on shared hosting	Template engine
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware	LGPL	Community	PHP	Database	Yes	Smarty
MediaWiki	GPL	WikiMedia foundation and community	PHP	Database	Yes	?
TWiki	GPL	Twiki.net and community	Perl	Flat files	No	?
FOSWiki	GPL	Community (Twiki-fork)	Perl	Flat files	No	?
DokuWiki	GPL	Community	PHP	Flat files	Yes	?
MindTouch	GPL & LPGL	MindTouch	PHP & C#	Database	No	?
MoinMoin	GPL	Community	Python	Flat files	No	simple
Confluence	commercial	Atlassian	Java	?	No	?
PmWiki	GPL	Community	PHP	Flat files	Yes	?
JSPWiki	LGPL	Community	Java	?	?	?
XWiki	LGPL	Xwiki.com	Java	Database	No	?
Trac	modified BSD	Edgewall	Python	Database	?	?
PhpWiki	GPL	Community	PHP	?	yes	?
Bitweaver	LGPL	Community	PHP	database	yes	Smarty
Socialtext	see site	Socialtext	Perl	Postgresql	no	?
WikkaWiki	GPL	Community	PHP	database	yes	?
FlexWiki
ScrewTurn Wiki
Wagn	?	?	Ruby	Database	?	?

Community stats

Engine	Number of commiters	Ohloh stacks	IRC chat room size (freenode)	Facebook group
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware	186	46	25	177
MediaWiki	210	349	183	48
TWiki	81	31	45	72
FOSWiki	43	26
DokuWiki	?	75	36	no group found
MindTouch	19	9	11	132
MoinMoin	29	56	42	no group found
Confluence	?	n/a	must use something else	153
PmWiki	4	25	10	8
JSPWiki	293?	10	7	11
XWiki	55	20	must use something else	147
Trac	17	851	114	no group found
PhpWiki	17	1	must use something else	no group found
Bitweaver	11	3	19	1
Socialtext	29	0	must use something else	66
WikkaWiki	8	18	10	no group found
FlexWiki	5	1
ScrewTurn Wiki	2	19

Ohloh stats

no data available for Confluence No data available for Wagn

More stats

Engine	Alexa	CIA messages Oct 2008	SSC toolbox	Freshmeat rank	SourceForge activity level
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware	45,761	439	12	43	click
MediaWiki	36,561	1465	52	259	click
TWiki	66,565	?	1	791	click
FOSWiki
DokuWiki	42,085	not found at CIA	7	47
MindTouch	36,594	161	0	new	click
MoinMoin	215,752	46	2	613
Confluence	40,234	not found at CIA	5	2718
PmWiki	89,911	?	0	3101
JSPWiki	127,138	not found at CIA	not found	14703
XWiki	177,743	not found at CIA	not found	2345
Trac	62,478	not found at CIA	11	425
PhpWiki	n/a, part of SourceForge.net	42	not found	717
Bitweaver	263,457	391	not found	8394	click
Socialtext	110,172	not found at CIA	4	not found	click
WikkaWiki	278,160	18	0	4342
FlexWiki	485,429				click
ScrewTurn Wiki

Other

Engine	GSOC2009	GSOC2008
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware	yes	no
MediaWiki	yes	yes
TWiki	no	no
FOSWiki	no	no
DokuWiki	no	no
MindTouch	no	no
MoinMoin	yes	yes
Confluence	no	no
PmWiki	no	no
JSPWiki	no	no
XWiki	yes	yes
Trac	no	no
PhpWiki	no	no
Bitweaver	no	no
Socialtext	no	no
WikkaWiki	no	no
FlexWiki	no	no
ScrewTurn Wiki

Related

• http://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1360?sort_by=popularity
• http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/?type_of_search=soft&fq[]=trove%3A651&sort=num_downloads_week&sortdir=desc&limit=25
• http://www.ohloh.net/tags/wiki
• http://freshmeat.net/tags/wiki?sort=popularity
• http://moinmo.in/WikiEngineComparison
• WikiCreolePopularityMethod
• http://www.wikimatrix.org/statistic/Most+Views
• compare them all on WikiMatrix

To do

This page should be split in three sections, community wiki (easy hosting) & enterprise/applications wikis. (behind the firewall, large scale, commercial support), hosted solutions (à la pbwiki)