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Wiki Comparison Chart

Posted by TimSlavin at February 20, 2005

This page provides links to most wiki software, including sites that compare wikis.

DocuWiki, a wiki software tool optimized for creating and publishing documents, has an excellent table that compares several different wiki tools with links to the home pages for those tools. It's a great place to start comparing possible wiki software.

I definitely can speak for DocuWiki in that it installed quickly, has some awesome syntax features useful for creating documents, easily allows you to use search engine friendly URLs, page edit locking (to prevent over-writing), page level access, XHTML/CSS compliant code, and other features.

The only negative: the install instructions, while written for command line use, work for FTP if you know enough to right mouse click on a folder or file, select properties, then change permissions. Oh, and I'm still trying to figure out where to change the page layout code…

UPDATE: Since this page gets a bit of traffic from people looking for wikis through Google, I would point you to an article on James Farmer's Online Education weblog. I've also added a large number of wikis to the Software: Wikis section of my Resources page so you can compare many wikis, not just what you find through search engines.

I'd also point you to the canonical list of all wiki software, organized by programming language and by name. That list, however, does not include hosted wikis which my Resources page includes (e.g. Jotspot, Seedwiki, EditMe). And you might want to look at SwitchWiki, a canonical list in the form of an alphabetized website that lists wiki software.

And I'd point you to a new site, Wiki Matrix, which lets you compare the features of different wiki software. They also have a wizard to compare a range of wiki software. Note, however, that their wizard does not compare a large number of hosted wikis, also known as wiki farms, just big ones like JotSpot. I assume they'll add more hosted wikis over time..

Also, I recently found that Wikipedia maintains a list of hosted wikis (which they call wiki farms, which is why I didn't find it until now). Wikipedia also maintains a list of Wiki software. Both lists are in matrix form with features to compare across wiki software and "farms."

URLs:

http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:compare
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120501/2004/06/10.html
http://www.reachcustomersonline.com/resources/topics/software_wikis/index.php
http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiEngines
http://www.worldwidewiki.net/wiki/SwitchWiki
http://www.wikimatrix.org/
http://www.wikimatrix.org/wizard.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_farms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software

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