Wikipedia Comparison of wiki software

from Wikipedia    MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a free and open-source wiki software. Originally developed by Magnus Manske and improved by Lee Daniel Crocker, it runs on many websites, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons.[5][6] It is written in the PHP programming language and stores the contents into a database. Like WordPress, which is based on a similar licensing and architecture, it has become the dominant software in its category.

The first version of the software was deployed to serve the needs of the Wikipedia encyclopedia in 2002.[7] Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects continue to define a large part of the requirement set for MediaWiki.[8] The software is optimized to efficiently handle large projects, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of hits per second.[8][9]

Because Wikipedia is one of the world's largest websites, achieving scalability through multiple layers of caching and database replication has been a major concern for developers. The software has more than 900 configuration settings[10] and more than 2,000 extensions available for enabling various features to be added or changed.[11] On Wikipedia alone, more than 1000 automated and semi-automated bots and other tools have been developed to assist in editing.[12] It has also been deployed by some companies as an internal knowledge management system,[13] and some educators have assigned students to use MediaWiki for collaborative group projects.[14]

MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group

The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group is a MediaWiki user group consisting of MediaWiki developers, system administrators, users, consultants, and hosting providers who cooperate in order to improve the software and advocate the needs of MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its projects.

The group was recognized by the Affiliations Committee on November 11, 2014 and renewed in August 1016. If you want to join us, see below how to participate.

This page serves the purpose of coordinating internal tasks of the group. To be kept up-to-date on our activities, you can follow the tasks on our workboard in Phabricator. We also keep an online presence at MWStake.org where we write about interesting news and events happening in the MediaWiki world.

Our scope of influence is deliberately broad and meant to be flexible to encompass the needs of our diverse community. Our areas of collaboration are described below.

from Wikipedia    MoinMoin

MoinMoin is a wiki engine implemented in Python, initially based on the PikiPiki wiki engine. Its name is a play on the North German greeting Moin, repeated as in WikiWiki. The MoinMoin code is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2, or (at the user's option) any later version (except some 3rd party modules that are licensed under other Free Software licenses compatible with the GPL).[2]

Dozens of organizations use MoinMoin to run public wikis,[3] including free software projects Ubuntu, Apache, Debian, FreeBSD.[4]

phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mediawiki-stakeholders-group/

DESCRIPTION

Project used for planning by members of the MediaWiki Stakeholders group. The MediaWiki Stakeholders group consists of MediaWiki developers, admins, users, consultants, and hosting providers who cooperate in order to improve the software and advocate the needs of MediaWiki users outside the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its projects.

Sites using MediaWiki

from Wikipedia    Tiki

Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware or simply Tiki, originally known as TikiWiki, is a free and open source Wiki-based content management system and online office suite written primarily in PHP and distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) license.[2] In addition to enabling websites and portals on the internet and on intranets and extranets, Tiki contains a number of collaboration features allowing it to operate as a Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS) and Groupware web application.

Tiki includes all the basic features common to most CMSs such as the ability to register and maintain individual user accounts within a flexible and rich permission / privilege system, create and manage menus, RSS-feeds, customize page layout, perform logging, and administer the system. All administration tasks are accomplished through a browser-based user interface.

Tiki features an all-in-one design, as opposed to a core+extensions model followed by other CMSs. This allows for future-proof upgrades (since all features are released together), but has the drawback of an extremely large codebase (more than 1,000,000 lines).

Tiki can run on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP 5 (including Apache HTTP Server, IIS, Lighttpd, Hiawatha, Cherokee, and nginx) and a MySQL database to store content and settings.[3]