Wiki Engine Review Wiki Lists

Starting a list for use with the Wiki Engine Review of all Wiki Engines, Wiki Farms, and Wiki Forums (and the Wiki Engine they use) that I can find.

I will start with any lists I can find, which include:

Wiki Farm (apparently to be moved to Wiki Farms)

c2.com (looks like useful information -- I wish I had found it earlier)

twiki.sourceforge.net This link is broken -- 2002-07-10 (looks like useful information - I wish I had found it earlier)

--gone to read--

My intent is to maintain the lists in alphabetic order.

The reason is that I am overwhelmed with Wiki Engines.


Alans Wiki -- same as Owl Wiki?

Another Php Wiki -- Aims toward Kehei Wiki compatibility. GPL

Asp Wiki - Wiki implemented in Active Server Pages.

Atis Wiki -- Perl-based, configurable backends (files, CVS) and Look-and-Feel.

Bazza Wiki -- not publicly available

Blast Wiki -- PHP based, very small (needs MySQL).

CLiki - a Common Lisp Wiki with the Standard Set Of Features, plus HTML, less Wiki Case

Cv Wiki -- Wiki Base-based, more functional than Atis Wiki, but lacking a GPL.

Cyber Publishing -- a wiki-based Web publishing framework written in Python; GPL

Dev Wiki -- An LGPLd Java Language implementation with CVS versioning and multiple Wiki Spaces. Very flexible/configurable... maybe a little hard to set up.

eWiki -- wiki written in Eiffel Language:
ewiki.sourceforge.net

Dolphin Wiki Web -- Object Arts' GPL Perl Language wiki (supports templates, is used for many sites)

Java Wiki -- is this also Alans Wiki and Owl Wiki? Owl Wiki Screen Shot -- or is Alans Wiki a forum?

Jiki (Jiki Jiki Java) -- An Open Source distributed components-based wiki

Jwiki (Java Wiki) -- A wiki written in Java Language using servlets and MS Access (by Ricardo Clements).

JWiki -- A wiki written in Java Language. Very lightweight server. www.xmission.com

Jos Wiki -- Perl Language (replaced by the Twiki Clone engine)

Free Wiki -- JSP-based Open Source wiki

Friki Servlet -- 'Friki' a "Do the Simplest Thing" servlet-based wiki

Notes Wiki -- A simple wiki written for Lotus Notes

Odd Muse -- A Perl Language derivative of Use Mod used by the Emacs Wiki

Owl Wiki -- Sama as Alans Wiki and Java Wiki?

Open Wiki -- ASP based wiki, has a unique difference engine. BSD license.

Phiki Wiki -- yet another PHP wiki, based on Piki Piki.

Php Wiki -- PHP-based wiki, runs on Pear:DB, adodb, flatfile or dba, GPL.

Pyle - homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz - Python Language, GPL, (G)DBM or CVS, lots of extensions

Py Wiki -- Python Language, uses RCS, GPL license

Piki Piki -- Python Language, will run completely standalone

Pikie Pikie -- Python Language, lets you put a Web Log on any page (based on PIkiPiki)

Pnuts Wiki -- A wiki written in Pnuts, will run as a servlet. pnuts.org

Qwik Wiki (Qwiki) -- Perl Language, rapid searching, Open Source

Ruby Wiki (RWiki) -- Ruby Language, XHTML1.0 Strict, indent-based text block format.

Simple Wiki -- Squeak wiki (more commonly called swiki)

sfWiki -- PHP and MySQL, for Source Forge sites. sfwiki.sourceforge.net

Spi Der -- Intergraph's ASP-based Wiki.

Squeak Smalltalk -- Distribution includes a wiki in Smalltalk

Striki Wiki -- I don't know what its claim to fame is -- follow the link

Sushi Wiki -- a wiki implemented in Dot Net

Tcb Works -- Free to certain organizations

Thoughts Weaver -- See Org Patterns for instance, not public?

Ti Ki -- Ruby Language, simple and small, with (Japanese) kanji support

Twiki Clone (TWiki) -- Perl Language, mature and full featured system targeting the corporate intranet world

Use Mod Wiki -- Perl Language, actively developed with Wiki Nature options and simple setup.

Vb Wiki -- Visual Basic, runs under Win95, NT

Web Web -- Might be a victim of leaping Creeping Featuritis

WebWebX -- Derivative of Web Web - see Web Web Two

Wiki Doc -- Macro to make Microsoft Word wiki-like.

Wiki Mode for Emacs -- Local wiki-like editing mode.

Wiki Server for WIN32 -- wiki implemented in C++ as a standalone (minimal!) HTTP 1.0 server

Wiki Slurp -- A spider that downloads a wiki site as local HTML files.

Wiki Web Help -- AJAX wiki designed to operate like a desktop chm help viewer.

Wiki Wiki Web -- Ward Cunningham's original wiki, in Perl Language, using DBM

Wiki Works -- wiki for Visual Works, used heavily and full features.

Wiki++ -- A Wysiwyg Wiki using C++ & IE4. Try Wiki Cpp

Wi Kit -- Based on Tcl and Metakit (also has a local mode)

Wikki Tikki Tavi -- Written in PHP, uses MySQL

Wik Leet -- Extremely fast wiki for Templeet. Written in Templeet language, uses PHP.

Yet Another Wiki -- Squeak based

Yuki Wiki -- Yet another wiki for Japanese.

Zwi Ki (ZWiki) -- Zope Application Server-based, powerful, GPL.

Non-public Wikis, but still worth discussion

Envisioning Wiki A clone, but not ready yet(?)

Km Wiki -- wiki + Knowledge Management, Java

Ms Wiki -- a Microsoft Front Page friendly wiki

Mu Web Web, and its clones Link fixed -- Tom Stambaugh

Niki Niki -- JPython servlet, now password protected.

Pats Wiki (pWiki)

Panu Viljamaa's Dater

Pro Wiki Engine, a German wiki engine, derived from Use Mod Wiki

Sc Ribble in (re)development, oriented towards project teams

Soft Wiki -- Tcl scripts living in a database that users can modify.

Spike Wiki A clone in development, pending resources

Statistics wiki at Wharton--not ready for public display--uses kwiki

The Wib -- in Perl Language for customer support Link?

Wiki Web Dot Com -- in Smalltalk Language (a product and free service)

Still in development.

Inactive or unreachable (as of October 1999)

Austin David's Kwiki (sorry! It's OK now) -- subject = sailing

Scheme Wiki (no site given, possibly just ideas)

Free Web (404 not found)

System Envisioning Wiki (available, but no edits for 9 months)

Story Base (404 not found)


Of interest to me is how each of these wikis stores its pages. I like having the pages in plain text so that I can port between wikis if need be (I like trying different wikis :-). Is it worth attempting to produce a list of wikis whose pages can be exchanged between them? -- Channing Walton


''Is wiki.cs.uiuc.edu a Wiki Farm? There are a bunch of wikis there, but only the administrator can set up a new one. (Aside: It uses Wiki Works 0.6)''


See original on c2.com