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This '''comparison of [[wiki hosting service]]s''' details notable online services which host [[wiki]]-style editable [[web page]]s. General characteristics of cost, presence of advertising, licensing, and [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] rank are compared, as are technical differences in editing, features, wiki engine, multilingual support and syntax support.

== General comparison ==
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The following tables compare general information for several of the more than 100 wiki hosting services that have been created.<ref name="wikmat">
"WikiMatrix - Compare them all" (selectable table),
WikiMatrix, 2007, webpage:
[http://www.wikimatrix.org/ wikimatrix-org-main].
</ref> The [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] traffic rankings are not accurate for those wiki hosting services 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 hosting service. Also, the Alexa rankings may be different with respect to time. All the wikis on Wiki.Wiki have separate domains. So no Alexa ranking is listed for them.

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="empty-cells:show;"
|-
! Wiki hosting service
! Cost
! Ads
! Content license
! [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] rank<ref>Approximative rank according to Alexa Internet. Click on the rank to get the last figures.</ref>
|-
| '''[[Central Desktop|iMeet Desktop]]'''
| Paid <!-- it is now renamed to iMeet Central and no community edition is available anymore-->
| {{dunno}}
|
| {{nts|30727}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/centraldesktop.com |title=centraldesktop.com Site Overview |author= |date=2015-06-21 |work= |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] |accessdate=2015-06-21}}</ref>
|-
| '''[[Confluence (software)|Confluence Hosted]]'''
| {{Nonfree}}<ref>Confluence has no free hosted option, but offers free software for charitable nonprofits and open source projects.</ref>
| {{dunno}}
|
| {{nts|2933}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/atlassian.com |title=atlassian.com Site Overview |author= |date=2015-06-21 |work= |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] |accessdate=2015-06-21}}</ref>
|-
| '''[[eXo Platform|eXo Cloud]]'''
| Free/paid <!-- there's one indefinitely free offering... -->
| {{dunno}}
|
| {{nts|596280}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/exoplatform.nett |title=eXo Cloud Site Info |author= |date=2014-06-02 |work= |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] |accessdate=2014-06-02}}</ref>
|-
| <span class="plainlinks">'''[https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze Miraheze]'''</span>
| {{Free}}
| {{Yes|No}}
| Creative Commons
| {{nts|388910}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/miraheze.org|title=Miraheze.org Info|date=2016-07-06|publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]]|author=|work=|accessdate=2016-07-06}}</ref>
|-
| '''[[Ourproject.org]]'''
| {{Free}}
| ?
| [[Copyleft]] (choice of [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons]], [[GNU FDL]], other licenses)
| {{nts|1343558}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ourproject.org |title=ourproject.org Site Overview |author= |date=2015-06-21 |work= |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] |accessdate=2015-06-21}}</ref>
|-
| '''[[PBworks]]'''
| Free/paid
| {{Yes|No}}
|
| {{nts|6063}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pbworks.com |title=pbworks.com Site Overview|author= |date=2015-06-21 |work= |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] |accessdate=2015-06-21}}</ref>
|-
| '''[[ShoutWiki]]'''
| {{Free}}
| {{No|Yes}}
| [[Copyleft]] [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons]]
| {{nts|43931}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/shoutwiki.com |title=shoutwiki.com Site Overview |author= |date=2015-06-21 |work= |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] |accessdate=2015-06-21}}</ref>
|-
| '''[[Socialtext]] Workspace Hosted'''
| {{Nonfree}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.socialtext.com/products/pricing.php |title=SocialText Packages & Pricing |publisher=Socialtext.com |date= |accessdate=2009-06-10}}</ref>
| {{Yes|No}}
| Wiki creators can set their own.
| {{nts|376575}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/socialtext.net |title=socialtext.net Site Overview |author= |date=2015-06-21 |work= |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] |accessdate=2015-06-21}}</ref><ref>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: June 18, 2012</ref>
|-
| '''[[Wikia]]'''
| {{Free}}
| {{No|Yes}}
| [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons]]
| {{nts|103}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikia.com |title=wikia.com Site Overview |author= |date=2015-12-20 |work= |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] |accessdate=2015-06-21}}</ref>
|-
| '''[[Top Level Design|Wiki.Wiki]]'''
| {{Free}}<ref name=wikiwiki>[https://wiki.wiki Wiki.Wiki] home page has links to wikis. Their [https://wiki.wiki/Wiki.Wiki "about us" page] says that [[Top Level Design]] is the operator, and has this: "Free hosting: There is no cost associated with launching a new project and hosting is provided for free!"</ref>
| {{No|Yes}}
| Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
| separate domains
|-
| '''[[Wikidot]]'''
| Free/paid
| {{Yes-No}}
| By default [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons]], [[GNU FDL]], other licenses as requested
| {{nts|3967}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikidot.com |title=wikidot.com Site Overview |author= |date=2015-06-21 |work= |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] |accessdate=2015-06-21}}</ref>
|-
| '''[[Wikispaces]]'''
| Free/paid<ref>Wikispaces private and plus accounts are free for K-12 educators.</ref>
| {{Yes|No}}
| Choice of [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons]], [[GNU FDL]], other licenses; only educational wikis are free<ref>[http://blog.wikispaces.com/2014/09/wikispaces-is-no-longer-offering-free-non-education-wikis.html Wikispaces is no longer offering free non-education wikis], September 16, 2014</ref>
| {{nts|2026}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikispaces.com |title=wikispaces.com Site Overview |author= |date=2015-06-21 |work= |publisher=[[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] |accessdate=2015-06-21}}</ref>
|- class="sortbottom"
! Wiki hosting service
! Cost
! Ads
! Content license
! [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] rank
|}

== Technical comparison ==
{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|-
! Wiki hosting service
! [[WYSIWYG]] editing
! Features
! Base wiki engine
! Multilingual support
! Syntax support
|-
| '''[[Central Desktop|iMeet Desktop]]'''
| {{Yes}}
| Access control, full-text search, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, [[RSS]] enabled.
| [?] (custom)
|
| HTML,<ref name=wikmat/><br />CSS/templating<br />No&nbsp;formulas
|-
| '''[[Confluence (software)|Confluence Hosted]]'''
| {{Yes}}
| Wiki markup language, plugins, SSL, file storage, permissioning, WebDAV.
|
|
| HTML plugin<br />script plugin<br />No&nbsp;formulas
|-
| '''[[eXo Platform|eXo Cloud]]'''
| {{Yes}}
| multi-wiki, permissions, PDF export, page hierarchy, templates, drafts, WEBDAV, email notifications, related pages
| [[XWiki]] rendering engine
|
| XWiki 2.0 syntax<ref>{{cite web|last=Mortagne|first=Thomas|title=XWiki Syntaxes|url=http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax|publisher=XWiki.org|accessdate=25 April 2014}}</ref>
|-
| '''[https://miraheze.org Miraheze]'''
| {{Yes}}
| free .miraheze.org subdomain (any language you need), provide support for your own custom domain, single login across all Miraheze wikis, backups, email/wiki/IRC support, extensions,
| [[Mediawiki]]
| All languages Wikipedia exists for (and some more); Community Support in English, French, Dutch, Romanian and some others
| Same as [[Wikipedia]] due to the same Wiki engine - MediaWiki: Some HTML,<ref name=wikmat/> [[Wikitext]], <br />JavaScript,<br />Math&nbsp;formulas
|-
| '''[[Ourproject.org]]'''
| {{Yes}}
| Wikis, mailing lists, FTP, SSH, subdomains, hosting, ddbb, email alias, backups, CVS/SVN, forums, task management.
| [[MoinMoin]] by default; custom supported
| Supports English, Spanish, French, and many other languages.
|
|-
| '''[[PBworks]]'''
| {{Yes}}
| 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 50 MB. Available to paying users: Folder- and page-level access controls, custom domain, unlimited storage.
| [?] (custom)
|
| All HTML,<ref name=wikmat/><br />JavaScript,<br />[[LaTeX]] formulas
|-
| '''[[ShoutWiki]]'''
| {{no}}
| Subdomain. Customer Support, Shared login, Anti-spam measures, Namespaces, Importing a wiki. Can map to a custom domain by contacting the Customer Support Team. Over 6000 wikis hosted. It is an [[Open Company]].
| [[MediaWiki]]
| All languages Wikipedia exists for (and some more); Community Support in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and several other languages.
| Same as [[Wikipedia]] due to the same Wiki engine - MediaWiki: Some HTML,<ref name=wikmat/> [[Wikitext]], <br />JavaScript,<br />Math&nbsp;formulas
|-
| '''[[Socialtext]] Workspace'''
| {{Yes}}
| Enterprise Wiki. Supports text, rich text, embedded images, video, and attachments (including from email).
| Derived from Kwiki
|
|
|-
| '''[[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.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}} Domains, names, and identifiers owned by Wikia Inc. No longer configures [[Semantic MediaWiki]] on request.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Semantic_MediaWiki |title=wikia.com, Help:Semantic MediaWiki |publisher=wikia.com |date= |accessdate=2009-07-22}}</ref> Blog, User Page, and User Talk pages for users.
| [[MediaWiki]]
| All languages Wikipedia exists for (and some more); Community Support in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and several other languages.
| Same as [[Wikipedia]] due to the same Wiki engine - MediaWiki: Some HTML,<ref name=wikmat/> [[Wikitext]], <br />JavaScript,<br />Math&nbsp;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 (file format)|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 (programming)|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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Wiki/|title=Text_Wiki|work=php.net}}</ref> engine
| Multilingual interface possibilities (translations done by users-volunteers)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://translate.wikidot.com/stats|title=Translate Wikidot!|work=wikidot.com}}</ref> and Community support in French and German
| No HTML,<ref name=wikmat/><br />CSS&nbsp;styling<br />LaTeX math formulas
|-
| '''[[Wikispaces]]'''
| {{Yes}}
| Subdomain. No limits on numbers of pages, spaces, or members. Full [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] support; easy space backups in [[ZIP (file format)|zip]] and [[Tar (file format)|tgz]]. Blog import function/ integration. Themes and stylesheets can be customized. Private label service available.
| [?] (custom)
|
| Optional HTML,<ref name=wikmat/><br />Unknown&nbsp;script<br />Math&nbsp;formulas
|- class="sortbottom"
! Wiki hosting service
! [[WYSIWYG]] editing
! Features
! Wiki engine
! Multilingual support
! Syntax support
|}

==Wiki Wizards==
There are also on-line services to help users to select the best Wiki service, based on requirements. These include:
* [http://www.wikimatrix.org/wizard.php WikiMatrix - Wiki Choice Wizard]

== 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 ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
* {{dmoz|Computers/Software/Groupware/Wiki/Wiki_Farms|Wiki farms}}
* [http://www.wikimatrix.org/ Wikimatrix, with interactive selection of wikihosting services based on user preference]
* [https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Farm:Farms Farms on WikiApiary] List of MediaWiki-powered wiki farms with various statistics.
* [http://wikiindex.org/Category:WikiFarm Category:WikiFarm] at WikiIndex.
* [http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201805279&pgno=3 InformationWeek, Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Content Management Systems, page 3-4]
* [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/wiki/WikiFarms WikiFarms - wikiteam - tools for archiving wikis].
* [[mw:Hosting services]]. [[MediaWiki]] page listing only MediaWiki-based hosting.

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