Wiki software

The first such software was originated or created by Ward Cunningham. Now, many different scripts exist. They clone or enhance the original version. A list of these different Wiki script-variants can be found at the URL of http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines.

The remainder of this article lists only the most popular Wiki scripts.

See also List of WikiWiki websites.

• Swiki (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/swiki): Super-portable and easy to setup and use.

• InterWiki - http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?InterWiki

• MetaWiki

• PHP Wiki: PhpWiki is a WikiWikiWeb clone in PHP. A WikiWikiWeb is a site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. All pages are stored in a DBMS and hyperlinking is dynamic. It's for collaboration, conversation and documentation all at once.

Homepage (http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/)

Version: 1.3.4 (December 2002)

Licence: GPL.

• TipiWiki[?] - http://andi.dasstellenwirinsinternet.de/tipiwiki/index.php?wiki=FrontPage

small, simple, strict xhtml, standard-compliant, plain files

• TWiki (http://twiki.org): A flexible, powerful, and easy to use Web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the Internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Developers can create new web applications based on a Plugin API. Open, freeform editing is the essence of the WikiCulture but TWiki lets you easily create and manage an extremely flexible, fine-grained privilege system.

Download page (http://www.twiki.org/)

Version: TWiki 01 Feb 2003.

Licence: GPL

Programming language: cgi-bin script written in perl

• UseModWiki: is actually a reimplementation/clone of the original Wiki concept created by Ward Cunningham

Download page (http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UseModWiki/Download)

Version: 0.92 (April 21, 2001)

Licence: GPL

Programming language: perl

• Zwiki (http://www.zwiki.org/) : ZWiki is a Zope-based WikiClone which allows you to build wikiwebs in the zope environment. This exposes some powerful functionality.

Download page (http://zope.org/Members/simon/ZWiki)

Version: 0.16.0 (2003/03/02)

Licence: GPL

Programming language: Zope

• MoinMoin (http://moin.sourceforge.net/) - Wiki clone in the Python programming language.

Version: 1.0

License: GPL

Programming language: Python

• Wikipedia:PHP script - Custom-designed for the high-volume Wikipedia encyclopedia project. Uses a MySQL database backend.

Version: Phase III

License: GPL

Programming language: PHP

• SnipSnap (http://www.snipsnap.org) - Java based package that combines Wiki and blog concepts. Includes its own web server, but can be built as a war file for use in other servlet engines.