Comparison of wiki software

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The following tables compare general and technical information for many wiki software packages.

General information

Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.

Target audience

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Installation

Footnotes

References

1. Licenses here are a summary, and are not taken to be complete statements of the licenses. Some packages may use libraries under different licenses.
2. "Setup:System requirements".
3. (2017-01-01). "Installation · BookStack".
4. "GitHub: cliki2: The wiki software behind cliki.net".
5. "Do I get access to the source code?".
6. "Supported Platforms - Confluence Data Center and Server 8.6 - Atlassian Documentation".
7. (1 March 2012). "Foswiki is getting SQL RDBMS support!".
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14. including: [[MySQL]], [[Oracle database. Oracle]], [[PostgreSQL]], [[IBM Db2]] and [[Microsoft SQL Server]]
15. "Manual:Installation requirements".
16. (6 March 2012). "Midgard-Project.org".
17. (2019-04-27). "GitHub: mojomojo/mojomojo: A Catalyst & DBIx::Class powered Wiki".
18. "Notion 2.0.41".
19. "Obsidian 1.3.5".
20. (6 May 2025). "PhpWiki".
21. "PhpWiki: Code: [r11057] /trunk".
22. [http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/older-releases/ PmWiki version 0.1 (tgz archive)] has its most recent file from 8 Jan 2002. The [http://www.pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users/ PmWiki-Users Mailing list] exist since August 2002.
23. "COMPATIBILITY - semantic-mediawiki.org".
24. Community, Tiki. "Requirements".
25. "TracChangeLog: The Trac Project".
26. "TracInstall: The Trac Project".
27. "MySqlDb: The Trac Project".
28. "WikiHistory".
29. "Database Support Strategy (Community.SupportStrategy.DatabaseSupportStrategy): XWiki".
30. "Manual:Preventing access".
31. "ParserMarket/mathtran".
32. "Manual:Preventing access".
33. Page Access Control: Some wiki engines allow (optional) read/write access restriction to users or user groups on a per-page basis (e.g. through [[Access control list]]s).
34. Inline HTML ''Safe'' means that several features of HTML are restricted. This is better than ''Full'', for security reasons. Users with complete access to HTML could, for example, create [[phishing. spoof]] forms to trick users.
35. User-customizable interface: Many items have administrator hand-editable templates. Even items which use hard-coded templates could still be modified if the source is available.
36. "PHPXRef 0.7: DokuWiki: /".
37. IP address blacklist, content by regular expressions, excessive activities, scripted registration prevention (plugin), hidden e-mail addresses
38. word/URL block (addon, auto-upd. database), URL-approval (option), encrypt e-mails (addon), [[nofollow]], [[Captcha]] (addon), spam filters (recipe)
39. Shulman, Eric. "AttachFilePluginInfo". TiddlyTools.
40. Community, Tiki. (20 November 2025). "Spam Protection".
41. HTML/XHTML with nested markup, or XOXO with collapsing or folding outlines
42. Block architecture, Calendars, Discussions, Database feature, Tasks and Milestones Blocks available
43. "Exporting Confluence Pages and Spaces to XML".
44. "Marketplace".
45. "Security Practices".
46. "The Personal Wiki System".
47. [http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:syndication] {{webarchive. link. (15 May 2006)
48. "plugins".
49. "toc [DokuWiki]".
50. Revision control, ACLs for topics, tagging, blogging, calendaring, charting, global search & replace, email notification, form handling and reporting, platform to build wiki applications, graphing, slideshow presentations, 13 translations, plotting, multistyle diffs, advanced searching, spreadsheet calculations, WYSIWYG supports TML, available as a VMware appliance, available as personal memory stick install.
51. For example, https://github.com/501st-alpha1/big-gollum
52. Support for server-side Javascript, [[VMware]] virtual appliance
53. (7 January 2015). "Manual:Table of contents".
54. Per-article discussion page, watchlist, searching, [[metawikipedia:Enotif. email notification]]
55. Highly usable, stores in XML, SOA, API, enterprise arch and business focused, fully supported by [[MindTouch]] [http://www.mindtouch.com company website]
56. Enterprise level security, authentication, and authorization, Email notification, additional desktop edition, XML-RPC content synchronization, searching in attachments (v1.6+).
57. Hierarchical node structure and cascading permissions system allows for stewardship of topics. Version control and ability to do 3-way merge on conflict.
58. SideBars; Discussions; email notifications w/diffs; SSO integration capability; Statistics; PDF output; HTML slideshows; integrated modules for calendars, spreadsheets, audio chat, and more; fully UTF-8 compliant; Tagging.
59. The [http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Worse Worse Editor] is a simple WYSIWYG editor. In text mode, Edit Toolbar for most frequently used wiki markup codes (customizable), Preview.
60. To HTML (3 modules/recipes), to PDF per page, per pre-defined list of pages, per namespace
61. Highly sophisticated support for customization. Practically chameleon-like.
62. The PmWiki markup rules are easily modifiable and replaceable by plug-ins, should a need for another wiki markup family be demonstrated.
63. [http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AutoTOC AutoTOC], [http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Category/TOC 5 other TOC modules]
64. PageVariables and PageLists allow creation of free-form text databases, queries and listings (core feature).
65. (7 January 2015). "Manual:Table of contents".
66. Per-article discussion page, watchlist, searching, [[metawikipedia:Enotif. email notification]]
67. accessible through REST/SOAP APIs
68. Installs own webserver (Commanche) and can co-exist with [[Internet Information Services. IIS]] or [[Apache HTTP Server. Apache]]. AniAniWeb function provides owner control of granular access and creates access groups. Users tracked by email address.
69. Single file, minimal setup, cross-browser, per page AES256 encryption, tags and title namespaces
70. Community, Tiki. (20 November 2025). "Toolbar".
71. ACLs, calendaring, charting, email notification, form handling and reporting, slideshow presentations, spreadsheet calculations and GRAPHS, mobile, GIS (MapServer), JGraphPad for drawings inside wikipages, 3d Browsing, Workspaces, Workflows, OpenOffice WYSIWYG editing of Tiki content, Multitiki installations
72. Enterprise level security, Multiple workspaces (tens to thousands) on same TeamPage server, Faceted permissioned search crossing workspaces using content or tag navigation, Page and Comment Moderation, Social tagging, Threaded discussion, Paragraph or page level comments, Microblogging with follow model, Extensible Personal Profile Pages, Live blogging, Document versioning and management via WebDAV, Page Name history to support complex refactoring, Mobile browsing, search, navigation, editing, E-Mail Newsletter, Flexible notification model (subscribe to page, comment thread, workspace, author for content or tag changes with email or Jabber notification), Reply to automatically generated email notification message to add comment to thread with automatic cleanup. Built-in usage metrics and interactive graphs, voting and star rating support. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) skin technology. Simple web based admin, Authenticate using LDAP or Active Directory (including LDAP queries for group definition, NTLM support for single signon, Optional Attivio Advanced Search module provides permission aware drill-down content navigation as well as wiki + attached document search, Java SDK (no charge for Java source and documentation), extensible SDL (Skin Definition Language), Fully supported
73. Revision control, ACLs for topics, tagging, blogging, calendaring, charting, global search & replace, email notification, form handling and reporting, platform to build wiki applications, graphing, slideshow presentations, 13 translations, plotting, multistyle diffs, advanced searching, spreadsheet calculations, WYSIWYG supports TML, available as a VMware appliance
74. Discussion pages, tagging, email notification, full-text search, user dashboard, localization
75. Platform to build wiki applications, Forms and Scripting, Multilingual, Database storage, Fulltext search, GraphViz, SVG, Freemind, Lucene, Charting, photo albums, presentations, blogging, calendar, e-mail plugin, virtual wikis, simple table computations, sortable tables, section editing, portlet integration, integrated statistics, [[XML-RPC]] API, Tags, PDF/RTF export
76. (2017-01-01). "Installation · BookStack".
77. "Supported Platforms: Atlassian Documentation".
78. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27012786&S_CMP=rnav Detailed system requirements for IBM Connections
79. "Manual:Installation requirements".
80. "Manual:Installation requirements".
81. Community, Tiki. (20 November 2025). "Requirements".
82. "Requirements".