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This comparison of wiki farms details notable online services which host wikiwiki-style editable web pages. General characteristics of cost, presence of advertising, licensing, and Alexa rank are compared, as are technical differences in editing, features, wiki engine, multilingual support and syntax support.
Wikis are one of the first online collaboration tools. At a minimum, they are simply editable text-based webpages accessed with a standard web browser, where changes are archived and can be recovered. Wiki farm services host large numbers of individual wikis with sufficient performance to support simultaneous use by large numbers of users, and include a wide variety of collaboration features.
General comparison
The following tables compare general information for several wiki farms; however, more than 100 wiki farms have been created.[1]
The Alexa traffic rankings are not accurate for those wiki farms that allow some of their hosted wikis to have separate domain names. In those cases there may be some additional Alexa rankings listed below for some of the larger individual wikis in a wiki farm.
| Wiki farm | Cost? | Ads? | Content license | Alexa rank[2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Desktop | Free/paid | ? | 13,313 [3] | |
| Confluence Hosted | Non-free[4] | ? | 12,658 [5] | |
| CustomerVision BizWiki | Non-free | ? | 5,357,869 [6] | |
| eTouch SamePage | Non-free | ? | 763,196 [7] | |
| Ourproject.org | Free | No | Copyleft (choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses) | 272,229 [8] |
| PBworks | Free/paid | No | 2,605 [9] | |
| Socialtext Workspace Hosted | Non-free[10] | No | Wiki creators can set their own. | 47,176 [11] |
| Wetpaint | Free/Paid | Yes | Creative Commons | 1,894 [12] |
| Wik.is | Free/paid | ? | 91,967 [13] | |
| Wikia | Free | Yes | Creative Commons | 236 [14] |
| Wikidot | Free/paid | Yes/No | By default Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses as requested | 3,687 [15] |
| Wikispaces | Free/paid[16] | Yes/No | Choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses | 3,443 [17] |
| XWiki | Free/paid | No | Any | 371,193 [18] |
| Wiki farm | Cost? | Ads? | Content license | Alexa rank |
Technical comparison
| Wiki farm | WYSIWYG editing | Features | Base wiki engine | Multilingual support | Syntax support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Desktop | Yes | Access control, full-text search, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, RSS enabled. | [?] (custom) | HTML,[1] CSS/templating No formulas | |
| Confluence Hosted | Yes | Wiki markup language, plugins, SSL, file storage, permissioning, WebDAV. | HTML plugin script plugin No formulas | ||
| CustomerVision BizWiki | Yes | Access control, page templates, domain mapping, solution templates include Sales Support, and Learning Support. | [?] (custom) | ||
| eTouch SamePage | Yes | Project management, permissioning, administration and support for multiple domains. | eTouch CMS (custom, powered by) | ||
| Ourproject.org | Yes | Wikis, mailing lists, forums, FTP, subdomains, hosting, ddbb, email alias, backups, CVS/SVN, task management. | MoinMoin | Supports English, Spanish, French, and many other languages. | |
| PBworks | Subdomain. No page limits, SSL, RSS & Atom, ZIP backups, diffs, colour schemes, email notifications, file management, page access settings. Over 800,000 workspaces hosted. One level of folders used to organize pages. Free accounts limited to 2 GB. Available to paying users: Folder- and page-level access controls, custom domain, unlimited storage. | [?] (custom) | All HTML,[1] JavaScript, LaTeX formulas | ||
| Socialtext Workspace | Yes | Enterprise Wiki. Supports text, rich text, embedded images, video, and attachments (including from email). | Derived from Kwiki | ||
| Wetpaint | Yes | WYSIWYG editing only, custom page hierarchies, Comment and Reply forums with comment ratings, access control, keyword search, tags, tag filtering, skins, RSS, page locking, profiles, site activity report, page and comment watching. No page permission settings. No changes preview. | Java-based (custom) | No HTML,[1] Unknown script No formulas | |
| Wik.is | Yes | Access control, full-text search (including file attachments), document management, light project management, database, project templates, RSS enabled, stores in XML, Deki Wiki a full featured engine (a MediaWiki fork). Free account 50 MB. Paid account ($99/yr) 1 GB. | Deki Wiki | ||
| Wikia | Yes | Common login and common preferences to all wikis of Wikia for the same user. Database download available. Cannot close an inactive wiki, even if the community has moved elsewhere. Domains, names, and identifiers owned by Wikia Inc. Will configure Semantic MediaWiki on request.[19] Blog, User Page, and User Talk pages for users. | MediaWiki 1.15.1 | All languages Wikipedia exists for (and some more); Community Support in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese, and several other languages. | Same as Wikipedia due to the same Wiki engine - MediaWiki: Some HTML[1], Wikitext, JavaScript, Math formulas |
| Wikidot | Subdomain. Can map a custom domain if previously registered for free. User can allow ads to be displayed on their wiki and get 80% of revenue. RSS, customizable themes with CSS, advanced forum for each site. Custom page hierarchies, searching, advanced page (full/section/append) edit locking, blocking users and IP addresses. Private messages between users. Uses Ajax. No limit on site size. Public and private wikis. Widgets. Each user can create up to 20 wiki sites and be a member of an unlimited number of wikis. | Modified Text_Wiki engine | English, Polish, Russian and Community support in French and German | No HTML,[1] CSS styling LaTeX math formulas | |
| Wikispaces | Yes | Subdomain. Free version supported by Google ads - ads can be turned off for a fee. No limits on numbers of pages, spaces, or members. Full RSS support; easy space backups in zip and tgz. Blog import function/ integration. Themes and stylesheets can be customized. Private label service available. | [?] (custom) | Optional HTML,[1] Unknown script Math formulas | |
| XWiki | custom skin, unlimited users | XWiki | All HTML,[1] velocity/groovy No formulas | ||
| Wiki farm | WYSIWYG editing | Features | Wiki engine | Multilingual support | Syntax support |
See also
- Collaborative real-time editor
- Collaborative software
- Comparison of wiki software
- List of collaborative software
- List of wiki software
- List of wikis
- Wiki software
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "WikiMatrix - Compare them all" (selectable table), WikiMatrix, 2007, webpage: wikimatrix-org-main.
- ^ Approximative rank according to Alexa Internet. Click on the rank to get the last figures.
- ^ Central Desktop traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ Confluence has no free hosted option, but offers free software for charitable nonprofits and open source projects.
- ^ Confluence Hosted traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ CustomerVision BizWiki traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ eTouch SamePage traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ Ourproject traffic rank. Accessdate: March 7, 2010
- ^ PBwiki traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ "SocialText Packages & Pricing". Socialtext.com. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
- ^ Socialtext traffic rank. Few wikis appear to be on the socialtext.net domain / or most are not public wikis, so the Alexa rating doesn't seem very relevant. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ Wetpaint traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ Wik.is traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ Wikia traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ Wikidot traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ Wikispaces private and plus accounts are free for K-12 educators.
- ^ Wikispaces traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ XWiki traffic rank. Accessdate: October 7, 2009
- ^ "wikia.com, Help:Semantic MediaWiki". wikia.com. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
External links
Wikiversity has learning resources about Comparison of wiki hosting services
- Template:Dmoz
- Wikimatrix, with interactive selection of wikifarms based on user preference
- Wiki farms at the Google Directory. In Google PageRank order, or alphabetical order.
- InformationWeek, Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Content Management Systems, page 3-4
Author: Steven Jones
Executive Editor Lease-a-seo.com provider of : Link Wheel Service