Comparison of wiki hosting services
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This comparison of wiki hosting services details only notable online services which host wiki-style editable web pages. General characteristics of cost, presence of advertising, licensing are compared, as are technical differences in editing, features, wiki engine, multilingual support and syntax support.
A more comprehensive comparison of wiki farms can be found on MediaWiki's site, at mw:Hosting services.
Table of services
This table compares general information for several of the more than 100 wiki hosting services that exist.[1]
Wiki hosting service | Founded | Cost | Ad supported | Content license | WYSIWYG editing | Subdomain | Custom themes | Database download / backup | Other Features | Base wiki engine | Language | Syntax support |
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Confluence Hosted | Non-free[a] | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | Plugins, SSL, file storage, permissioning, WebDAV. | Wiki markup language, HTML plugin script plugin No formulas | ||||
iMeet Central | Non-free | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | Access control, full-text search, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, RSS enabled. | [?] (custom) | HTML,[1] CSS/templating No formulas | |||
Nuclino | Free/paid[2] | No | Yes | No | ? | ? | Lightweight real-time collaborative editor, search-as-you-type, graph visualizations, flexible import and export. | On the fly conversion of Markdown input | ||||
Ourproject.org | Free | No[3] | Copyleft (choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses) | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Mailing lists, FTP, SSH, ddbb, email alias, backups, CVS/SVN, forums, task management. | MoinMoin by default; custom supported | Supports English, Spanish, French, and many other languages. | ||
PBworks | Non-free | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No page limits, SSL, RSS & Atom, email notifications, file management, page access settings. | [?] (custom) | All HTML,[1] JavaScript, LaTeX formulas | |||
Socialtext (Merged with PeopleFluent in 2012[4]) | Non-free[5] | No | Wiki creators can set their own. | Yes | No | ? | ? | Enterprise Wiki. Supports text, rich text, embedded images, video, and attachments (including from email). | Derived from Kwiki | |||
Fandom/Wikia/Gamepedia | Free | Yes | Creative Commons | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Common login and common preferences to all wikis of FANDOM for the same user. No longer configures Semantic MediaWiki on request.[6] 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,[1] Wikitext, JavaScript, Math formula | |
Miraheze | 2015 | Free | No | Wiki creators can set their own | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Deprecated wiki hosts
This is section is for hosts that were previously in the list above but no longer are up and running
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
Notes
- ^ Confluence has no free hosted option, but offers free software for charitable nonprofits and open source projects.
References
- ^ a b c d "WikiMatrix - Compare them all" (selectable table), WikiMatrix, 2007, webpage: wikimatrix-org-main.
- ^ "Pricing - Nuclino". Nuclino. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
- ^ "Ourproject.org Manifesto". Ourproject.org. July 2006. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
- ^ "SocialText Merges With PeopleFluent After Sale". CMSWire.com. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ^ "SocialText Packages & Pricing". Socialtext.com. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
- ^ "wikia.com, Help:Semantic MediaWiki". wikia.com. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
External links
- mw:Hosting services. Much longer list of MediaWiki-based wiki farms and hosting services. It is longer because each host does not have to meet the notability requirements of Wikipedia articles.
- Template:Dmoz
- Wikimatrix, with interactive selection of wikihosting services based on user preference
- Farms on WikiApiary List of MediaWiki-powered wiki farms with various statistics.
- Category:WikiFarm at WikiIndex.
- WikiFarms - wikiteam - tools for archiving wikis.