10 Best Wiki Platforms and Engines for Your Website

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A Wiki is basically a website that collects, stores, and organizes articles, images, notes, documents, etc. on a particular topic. Unlike a regular website or blog, users have the privilege to edit the content in a Wiki site. They can either openly edit Wiki pages without the need to log in, or create a simple profile to acquire the rights to do so.

Wiki sites may not be as popular as they were in the previous years, mainly because the technology is old. In this day and age, Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress has allowed people to easily create websites and blogs that serve the purpose of a Wiki, yet are easier to administrate. But that being said, we simply cannot under overlook the capabilities of a Wiki site. After all, they can be used for almost anything.

In today’s post, we’re going to share with you some of the best Wiki platforms and engines. Check out their features and functions and see what works best for your web project.

Enjoy!

TWiki

TWiki is a flexible, powerful, and user-friendly enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform, and web application – all in one amazing package. It’s a structured wiki that you can use to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledgebase, or any other groupware tool; on the Internet, intranet, or extranet. It doesn’t require you to have any programming skills to create web apps, and you can even extend the functionality of TWiki with plugins.

BoltWire

This easy-to-use web development systemcomes with incredible flexibility and power. It’s a cutting-edge architecture that allows you to easily create fully interactive websites without the need to learn a line of programming. Best of all, it’s available for free!

Corendal Wiki

Corendal Wiki is a Wiki intranet platform that’s written in Java. It uses MySQL or Oracle and Tomcat, and integrated with Active Directory accounts and groups. It comes equipped with full text indexing, a Rich Text Editor, and subscriptions, among others. It’s an open source version of a Wiki app that’s used internally by a real-world company.

WikkaWiki

This flexible, standards-compliant, and extremely lightweight Wiki engine is written in PHP and uses MySQL to store pages. It’s especially designed with speed, extensibility, and security in mind. It’s released under the GPL license.

MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a free open source Wiki platform that’s written in PHP, and was originally for use on Wikipedia. Now, it’s used by many other projects and Wikis, including MediaWiki’s homepage.

DokuWiki

This simple, easy-to-use, and versatile open source Wiki software doesn’t require a database.  A lot of people love its clean and readable syntax, and the ease of maintenance, backup and integration, making it an admin’s favorite. It has built-in access controls and authentication connectors, making it especially handy in the enterprise context. Its vibrant and supportive community contributed a lot of useful plugins that allow for a wide range of use cases beyond a traditional Wiki.

Wikia

Wikia may not entirely be a free Wiki platform, but it allows you to create great-looking Wiki websites. It’s one of the best Wiki software out there. It’s perfect for those who want to create Wiki sites just for fun. The sites created would be stored on Wiki’s server, so there are no operating costs. You just have to add content, and that’s it! You can also generate income from sites created using this platform, because it allows you to add advertisement codes.

XWiki

This Wiki platform offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative apps using the Wiki paradigm, and projects developed on top of it. It’s a lightweight and powerful development platform that lets you customize the Wiki as per your needs. With its structured data and in-page scripting, you can easily create macros and apps that allow you to extend the capabilities of your Wiki.

Zoho Wiki

Zoho is an Internet company that’s known for offering a lot of solutions to people. They also offer an amazing free Wiki platform that allows users to create easy-to-manage free Wiki sites. By registering, you’ll be able to create and manage 2 Wiki sites, and you can easily pay to get more!

PmWiki

This Wiki-based system is ideal for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. The pages look and act like normal web pages, except that they have an “Edit” link that makes it a breeze for you to modify existing pages and add new pages into the site, using basic editing rules. You don’t even need to know or use any HTML or CSS. Page editing can be left open to the public or restricted to small groups of authors.