• 100+ wiki like tools http://mashable.com/2008/12/31/wiki-resources/

 Hosted

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PBwiki – create your personal wiki in less than 30 seconds with this easy online service. Special solutions for educational, business and personal use.

OttoWiki – build up your personal wiki to track projects or collaborate on documents online.

WikiSpaces – create simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together.

WetPaint – build up public and private wikis and join one of the largest wiki communities.

ServerSideWiki – create a web-hosted wiki specifically designed for extremely fast load times.

StikiPad – a hosted wiki solution that gives you an easy way to organize your information and share it with others.

Netcipia – create free private wikis and blogs and invite your coworkers, familiy and friends.

Ziwiki – build up a free wiki site and collaborate with a large community of users.

Near-Time – create and customize collaborative wikis for your business, customers and friends.

LittleWiki – set up free public and private wiki pages that anyone can edit.

TiddlySpot – get your wiki with no installation required and make it private or public.

ProjectForum – create hosted wikis to share, discuss and review ideas collaboratively (self hosted version available too)

Socialtext – build up a wiki in a few seconds. Different plans available for enterprises and smaller groups.

WikiBios – create a wiki page and edit your own biography. You will become part of a large social network.

Wiki – create free wikispaces of up to 5 members each with 25MB storage.

Wikidot – free and professional wiki publishing, collaboration and communication solutions.

Zoho Wiki – create free hosted group wikis and edit them collaboratively.

Wik.is – create public or private wikis and easily integrate them with your existing website.

JotSpot – popular wiki creation service that is momentarily suspended after having been acquired by Google().

Wikia – a community of users that create, share and discover topics they are passionate about through wikis.

EditMe – wiki hosting service that helps non-technical users to quickly and easily build editable web sites.

Versionate – create collaborative spaces where you can share information and review it with other people.

intodit – A free wiki farm that includes a searchable directory of wikis on just about any topic.

ClearWiki – A private wiki geared toward businesses that includes up to ten users and 256Mb of storage in their free plan.

LittleWiki – A site that offers free private and public wiki page hosting.

Deki Express – A wiki capable of application and data mashups.

@Wiki – A free wiki hosting service that allows for both public and private wikis.

WizzardWiki – A JavaScript and HTML wiki with a WYSIWYG editor.

ContainU – A wiki farm with pages dedicated to people, businesses, products, and more.

on-wiki.net – A free wiki host that allows you to limit who can edit your pages.

BrainKeeper – An enterprise wiki software that includes a variety of paid plans starting at only $17/month.

Traduwiki – A wiki farm that has a special focus on translating its pages.

Zulupad – A personal online notebook with the ease of a wiki.

BusinessWiki – A wiki platform for businesses that is built on the MediaWiki platform.

Central Desktop – A wiki-based business and team collaboration tool.

Cospire – A free knowledge management system with wiki and blog functionality.

incentive – A corporate wiki, blogging and RSS platform.

Luminotes – A personal wiki-based notebook with a WYSIWYG editor. A downloadable version is also available

Metadot – A free and very easy to use wiki host.

Nexdo – A wiki for knowledge and project management that includes free and paid versions.

PicoWiki – A wiki specifically for smartphones, PDAs, iPhones and Blackberries.

Swirrl – A wiki-based collaboration tool that lets you store, share and analyze data with your team.

Seed Wiki – An ad-free wiki host that gives you the freedom to change your wiki’s layout and style.

Springnote – A personal online notebook based on a wiki platform.

Wibokr – Free wiki and blog hosting with unlimited space. A downloadable version is also available.

SmartPage – A powerful enterprise wiki and blog site.

SuperWiki – A an ad-free, simple wiki that offers addons for forum, chat, blog and calendar functions and unlimited storage.

BluWiki – A free wiki host with no ads or popups where you can publish anything.

Nuospace – An enterprise wiki with a WYSIWYG editor.

MotherWiki – A wiki farm that is aimed at getting wikis started and then helping them migrate to their own servers or wiki host.

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Self-Hosted/Open Source Wikis

ProjectForum – software to create wikis to share, discuss and review ideas collaboratively (hosted version available too).

Kwiki – wiki software with over 200 plugins that let you customize the look of your wiki.

XWiki – open source wiki released under the LGPL license

Twiki – enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system based on wikis.

OpenWiki – software that lets you create workspaces that can be collaboratively edited by anyone or by selected users.

MediaWiki() – free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia(). It’s available for everyone to use.

Confluence – enterprise wiki software that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge.

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Bitweaver – A CMS built around a wiki platform.

bLADE Wiki – A freeware personal wiki for note management.

BoltWire – A small (about 80K) and simple, but powerful, wiki engine.

ButorWiki – An open source Java wiki and CMS.

Canvas ColdFusion Wiki – A ColdFusion wiki built using Model-Glue with a powerful API.

Clearspace – A business collaboration platform that includes wiki functionality.

codeBeamer – A business collaboration suite with an enterprise wiki.

ConnectedText – A free personal wiki for managing your information, notes, and more.

daisy – A content repository and management system with a wiki front-end.

Deki – A downloadable, open source enterprise wiki.

DokuWiki – A standards-compliant wiki specifically for documentation creation.

ErfurtWiki – A PHP-based wiki.

Foswiki – An open-source wiki that supports active and passive macros to enhance usability and functionality.

trac – A wiki-based project management application.

Gazest – A community engine based on a wiki platform.

GeboGebo – A free wiki system that runs on Linux.

GroupsWiki – An open source, rails- and prototype-based WYSIWYG wiki.

Hatta Wiki – A wiki that uses a Mercurial repository to store pages.

IkeWiki – A wiki engine that supports semantic annotation by users

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ikiwiki – A wiki compiler that converts wiki pages into HTML pages.

Instiki – A wiki that supports file uploads, PDF export, RSS feeds and more, making it suitable for use as a CMS.

WikyBlog – A wiki/blog hybrid that was designed for ease of use and speed and uses an AJAX-enhanced interface.

Jacwiki – A php-based 34KB wiki that even includes CAPTCHA.

JAMWiki – A java-based wiki that doesn’t require an external database.

JSPWiki – An extensible wiki engine built around J2EE components.

KeheiWiki – A wiki engine named after a seaside town in Hawaii.

LionWiki – A file-based wiki suitable for small sites or personal journals that is extensible and templatable.

wikidBASE – An app that combines a wiki with the functionalities of a database system.

LunaWiki – A flexible and usable wiki that descended from the QwikiWiki platform.

MicKi – A micro wiki engine with minimal demands on its environment.

miniWiki – A PHP based wiki that’s aimed at single users or small groups with no anonymous editors.

MoinMoinWiki – An extensible wiki engine for collaboration on pages that are easily editable.

Perspective – A free Microsoft .Net wiki popular with big businesses.

PhpWiki – A clone of the original WikiWikiWeb written in PHP.

SmallWiki – A free and open source wiki platform for non-commercial use.

Pimki – An Instiki-based personal information manager.

PmWiki – A customizable wiki engine with hundreds of extensions.

Oddmuse – A wiki engine built in Perl and released under the GNU GPL.

PodWiki – A wiki built using the PerlPod markup.

ProntoWiki – A wiki engine built in ASP .NET with a customizable appearance and layout.

ProWiki – An open source wiki engine originally forked from UseMod.

ScrewTurn Wiki – An ASP .NET wiki engine that installs in minutes and is customizable with plugins and themes available.

Sycamore – An easy to use wiki engine available under the GNU GPL.

telepark.wiki – A business wiki engine you can try for free.

TiddlyWiki – A wiki engine that consists of a single HTML file that can be emailed, put online or even stored on a portable USB drive.

WikiPoint – Adds wiki functionality to SharePoint.

TikiWiki – A CMS that includes a wiki engine.

Traction TeamPage – An enterprise wiki and blog platform.

VQWiki – “Very Quick Wiki” is a wiki server software based on Java.

WackoWiki – A lightweight wiki engine based on WakkaWiki but with additional features.

Wala – A wiki engine designed to be friendlier and less intimidating to casual users and contributors.

WiClear – A wiki engine still in the early stages of its development.

wikepage – A wiki-blog hybrid released under the GNU GPL.

KiWi – A knowledge management wiki that includes Semantic Web elements.

Wiki Asp – A free wiki that’s easy to use.

WikiDoc – A Windows executable wiki that doesn’t require a web server or database installation and runs right from your PC.

WikiNi – A simple and effective wiki engine for internet or intranet sites.

WikiSH – A small, fast, easy wiki that will run on any Unix machine.

WikkaWiki – A standards compliant, lightweight wiki engine forked from WakkaWiki.

Zwiki – A wiki engine for the Zope 2 application platform that also works within Plone sites.

XoWiki – A wiki based on a rich text editor.

Dandelion – An experimental wiki engine that uses a revision control system for storage.

CodexWiki – An Enterprise ColdFusion wiki that uses mediawiki syntax.

reviki wiki – A Java wiki with an SVN backend.

SnipSnap – Free Java weblog and wiki platform.

Svnwiki – A wiki that stores information in a Subversion repository.

CLiki – A wiki written in Common Lisp.

PumaWiki – Simple wiki that saves all of your information in text files instead of a database.

Ogham – A wiki-like CMS that doesn’t use wiki syntax or automatic linking.

Sputnik – An extensible, full-featured wiki that’s easy to install and doesn’t require root access.

pikipiki – A small, Python-based wiki engine.

PikiePikie – A wiki engine that supports easy text input and image uploading.

wikidPad – An open source, wiki-like notebook.

Hiki – A Ruby-based wiki engine.

Swiki Swiki – A wiki engine written in Squeak.

Others to include:

Centerstage - wiki add on for EMC's Documentum

Day Software has a wiki like solution called CQ5, positioned as Social Collaboration software - http://www.day.com/day/en/products/social_collaboration.html

Socialtext

DekkiWiki by Mindtouch - Self hosted wiki, doesn't rely on wiki markup

Deki Express

Wetpaint is also a great Wiki site that is really easy to use--www.wetpaint.com.

Seriously, no love for TWiki (http://twiki.org)?

Try out these two versions of a TiddlyWiki adaptation I created for note-taking.
It's called No-Brainer Notes:

http://www.giffmex.org/experiments/nobrainernoteswithtabmenu.html
http://www.giffmex.org/nobrainernotes.html

Wiki Search / Browsing Tools

Gollum – a fast and user friendly tool that lets you browse through Wikipedia.

Qwika – search articles in Wikipedia with this tool that bridges the language gaps.

Wikiseek – another interesting service that lets you search items within Wikipedia.

WikiWix – search engine specialized in searching content within Wikipedia.

Issues in supporting wikis

• Comparing Confluence and Moinmoin - talking about page name collision between projects - http://www.mail-archive.com/general@portals.apache.org/msg00259.html
  • Not favorable to Confluence because of features he wants
    • Wants nested spaces - http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-1095
    • User issues with wanting to use same page name under different parents - http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2524

Other wiki related links:

• Someone wanting a low cost wiki space for a campout - http://scobleizer.com/2006/07/21/i-want-a-wiki/ - http://scobleizer.com/2006/07/21/i-want-a-wiki/trackback/
  • Writeboard http://www.writeboard.com/
  • Take a wiki like tiddlywiki http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ and save it and then host the file on your site...it doesn't use a database and can easily be customized to what you need it to do for a simple application like a campout.
  • I want a wiki…
  • hey, what do you think about this one? http://www.mychingo.com/learnmore.asp
  • http://www.kwiki.org
  • http://www.jotspot.com
  • http://www.littlewiki.com/wiki/Home
  • http://www.wikispaces.com
  • http://www.centraldesktop.com
  • http://www.stikipad.com
  • We're using mediawiki for our own http://press.teleinteractive.net/open/wiki/Main_Page Open Source Business Intelligence wiki.
  • http://digg.com/software/What_are_the_Best_Wikis_from_Your_Experiences
  • http://wikiindex.com/Category:WikiFarm
  • can't you get a little web space and run your own Docuwiki ? (no database needed): http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki

• World of wikis - 2007 article about where did wikis come from, what can they be used for, some choices - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_world_of_wikis.php

• Dingo bookmarks on an article about wikis at school - http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Fblog%2Feducation%2Fback-to-school-with-wikis%2F4061%3Ftag%3Dmantle_skin%3Bcontent?gname=diigoineducation
  • Original article - Back to school with wikis - http://www.zdnet.com/blog/education/back-to-school-with-wikis/4061

Wiki books

• Dan Bell - preview of Wiki Handbook - Buy online for $19.95 - http://www.scribd.com/doc/36101041/The-Wiki-Handbook-THE-How-To-on-Wiki-Complete-Expert-s-hints-and-tips-Guide-by-the-leading-experts-everything-you-need-to-know-about-Wiki
• $20 amazon book on wiki farms - http://www.amazon.com/Wiki-Farms-Comparison-Ourproject-org-Wikispaces/dp/1155298853

Wiki comparisons

• Session notes on using wikis for effective collaboration - New York 2008

• Comparison of wiki farms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_farms

• Wiki engine comparison at moinmoin with a lot of discussion - http://moinmo.in/WikiEngineComparison

• Comparison of wiki farms - http://tripatlas.com/List_of_wiki_farms

• Wiki comparision site - http://www.wikimatrix.org

• Limitations of feature list comparisons
  • While I appreciate the matrix, sometimes pure feature list comparisons can be counter-productive because they don't take into account that different types of project need different things. I.e. they don't say why we need certain functions.
    • A better kind of comparison might come from users with experience of Wikidot and another overlapping product, who can explain precise advantages in one or the other based on their use.
    • Or, we could look at typical tasks and see how they compare in different products:
      • Installation and configuration
      • Starting a new project
      • Creating a custom look and feel
      • Adding participants to a project
      • Creating private areas
      • Workflow on project pages
      • Integration with email
      • Uploading files
      • Extensibility of core product
      • Creating reusable blocks
      • Custom listing and sorting of pages

This would help drive Wikidot to becoming more useful. Adding features just makes it more complex.

It is also useful to try to understand the target market for different products. For instance, Confluence is more aimed at business users, while Wikidot is more aimed at smaller, more flexible groups.

authentication methods a wiki farm should support

• For authentication, there are two methods: CAS for authentication of university people, Sympa (lists.case.edu) for authentication of external people. For authorization, we can do group membership through LDAP, Sympa and the USG web service. Shibboleth can also be leveraged in there too. How are all of these methods combined seemlessly? We need to select a software package(s) that allows these all to be used.
• Others include Active Directory, Single Sign on - SSO
• sources: 1

Why not to use a wiki hosting provider?

• they may not integrate well with inhouse authentication and authorization.
• Sensitive information being stored outside the company

Wiki farms

• Thoughts on setting up a wikifarm - http://blog.case.edu/gps10/2006/03/24/thoughts_on_establishing_a_wiki_farm

• Comparison of wiki farms - http://tripatlas.com/List_of_wiki_farms

• $20 amazon book on wiki farms - http://www.amazon.com/Wiki-Farms-Comparison-Ourproject-org-Wikispaces/dp/1155298853

On top 3 Services desired from IT: #2 is wiki farms!

• http://blog.case.edu/jeremy.smith/2006/02/01/three_wanted_its_services_wiki_farm
• Proposal for a wiki farm at Case Western Reserve University with pros/cons of many softwares - http://wiki.case.edu/Wiki_farm_proposal

More information about Confluence

• Very simple slideshow about Confluence at University of Bath - http://www.bath.ac.uk/marketing/webservices/presentations/2007/simplewiki/

• wikidot comparison of itself to confluence and mediawiki - http://www.wikidot.org/contrib:comparison-to-other-wiki-engines

• Evaluation of Confluence, Wiki, and Xwiki for LDAP, Farming, and Customization - http://technical.bestgrid.org/index.php/Installing_and_Evaluating_Wikis_considered_at_University_of_Canterbury:_Evaluation_summary

• List of confluence competitors, with a good one paragraph review of each - http://www.web2review.com/site/1930-Confluence/competitors/
  • Social text
  • BrainKeeper - BrainKeeper Enterprise Wiki Software helps you capture, collaborate and distribute your company's most critical information
  • Versionate - Online document storing, sharing and editing tool
  • Wetpain
  • Zoho wiki - It's a Wiki + WYSIWYG Editor. A personal homepage site.
  • Editme - EditMe is a hosted wiki and content management service that empowers non-technical users to build and host irresistibly editable web sites. EditMe includes powerful features to enable multiple contributors to collaborate on the site's content, unmatched access controls to protect sensitive information, and a powerful development platform that grows with your site. EditMe offers powerful content management, collaboration, and hosting tools - all bundled into an incredibly simple and affordable solution. Flexible access controls support a broad range of uses, including corporate intranets, public web sites, blogs, wikis, and community sites. Editing is easy enough for novice users, making EditMe an inclusive solution for groups with varied capabilities or non-technical users. For expert users, CSS editing and a powerful JavaScript API provide complete control over a highly configurable content management solution.
  • Little wiki - Shopping engine
  • Product wiki -
  • Seed wiki - wiki farm where wikis are free, offering plugins to allow apps and websites on wiki framework
  • Serverside Wiki
  • Stikipad
  • Tiddly Wiki - a popular free MicroContent WikiWikiWeb created by JeremyRuston and a busy Community of independent developers. It's written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any ServerSide logic. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents that can be posted to a WebServer, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive to make a WikiOnAStick. Because it doesn't need to be installed and configured it makes a great GuerillaWiki. This is revision 2.4.0 of TiddlyWiki (see recent changes), and is published under an OpenSourceLicense.
  • Media Wiki
  • PMWiki
  • Samepage
  • Mindtouch - MindTouch Deki is an open source collaboration and integration platform. Share information and files more efficiently, wiki-style, with the most sophisticated and popular enterprise wiki available
  • Incentive
  • Boltwire
  • Clearwiki
  • connectedtext
  • wikidot
  • metadotwiki
  • instiki
  • dokuwiki
  • moinmoin
  • jspwiki
  • thoughtfarmer
  • wikispot
  • canvas coldfusion wiki
  • netcipia
  • wibok
  • wikia
  • citizendium
  • editthis.info
  • xwiki - The XWiki project offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it. All XWiki software is developed in Java and under the LGPL open source license.
  • tikiwiki
  • Wikkawiki
  • @Wiki
  • pmwiki
  • swirrl
  • twiki
  • superwiki
  • intodit
  • traduwiki
  • businesswiki
  • bluwiki - free wiki host with no ads or popups where you can publish anything
  • motherwiki
  • intland
  • telepark.wiki
  • pbworks
  • wagn

• Old info about Confluence - Confluence 2.10.1
  • Confluence is our professional wiki designed to make it easy for a team to share information with each other and with the world - all in a single web-based location. As used by Boeing, Telenor Networks, Thoughtworks, Confluence and Adobe. Atlassian's Confluence includes features rarely seen in wiki software: security, blogging, refactoring, HTML/PDF exporting, a remote API, LDAP integration, easy installation.
  • Confluence testimonials: "I have never seen SO many colleagues get SO addicted to something SO quickly." and another "We have recently started using Confluence (i.e. around a month) and it has quickly become a core, critical part of our business. It works well in so many ways."
  • The standalone distribution demo is a fully functional version of Confluence and has been optimised to allow you to get started with Confluence in the shortest possible time. This distribution can be modified to use an external database, and data can be migrated at any time.

Other wiki pages here

• Confluence vs. Mediawiki
• Near Time Wiki
• Session notes on using wikis for effective collaboration - New York 2008
• The high cost of supporting wiki system upgrades

Google queries

• confluence wikifarm subdomains