Comparison of wiki software

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of wiki software packages. Please see the individual products articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date.

=Comparison table=

Basic general information about the distributions: creator/company, license/price etc.

; Instiki - Ruby License : Instiki is distributed under the same terms as Ruby itself, per the [http://ruby.mirror.easynet.be/en/LICENSE.txt Ruby license]. ; Page Access Control : Some wiki engines allow (optional) read/write access restriction to users or user groups on a per-page basis (for instance, through Access_control_list). ; Inline HTML : Safe means that not all HTML is allowed. That is better than Full, for security reasons. Users with complete access to HTML could, for example, spoof forms to trick users. ; 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. ; MediaWiki Customizable interface - templates : The default skin (MonoBook) is not compatible with PHP5 and so MediaWiki will fall back to another template which, for example, does not have . : (Actually I ve been using MediaWiki 1.4.4 with PHP5 and the default skin (MonoBook), and it seems to work alright so far, at least. I ve just started, so we ll see...)

=Advice on choosing a Wiki=

Choosing a suitable wiki for your needs can be difficult due to the bewildering number of choices. For some people, choosing a Wiki engine that uses text files for storage instead of a database might be easiest, since it does not require a database server (like MySQL).

If you are interested in a proof-of-concept, you might want to start with DidiWiki or Instiki .

DidiWiki is a tiny wiki implementation with built in web server.

Instiki requires no web-server and is easy to install on any platform (including Linux, MacOSX and Windows) that supports Ruby programming language.

=External links=

==Other comparison tables==

*[http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:compare Wiki comparison table] comprehensive comparison table at splitbrain.org *[http://wikifeatures.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/WikiEngine WikiEngine] another comparison table *[http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/WikiEngineComparison moinmoin: WikiEngineComparison]

==Other sites==

*[http://markhobley.yi.org/wiki/howto.html How To Use Wiki (Based on DidiWiki)] *[http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wikiTopTenWikiEngines Top Ten Wiki Engines] according to the WikiWikiWeb community *[http://csharp-source.net/open-source/wiki-engines Open Source Wiki Engines in C#]