Comparison of wiki hosting services

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, and Alexa rank 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.

The following table compares general information for several of the more than 100 wiki hosting services that have been created.[1] The Alexa traffic rankings are a snapshot that will vary over time. For wiki hosting services that allow hosted wikis to have separate domain names, the Alexa count might not be complete, as such wikis may have their own Alexa rankings.

Wiki hosting service Year founded Cost Ad supported Content license Alexa rank[lower-alpha 1] WYSIWYG editing Subdomain Customisable themes / CSS Database download / backup Other Features Base wiki engine Multilingual support Syntax support
Confluence Hosted
2004
Non-free[lower-alpha 2] ? 1,426[2] Yes No ? ? Plugins, SSL, file storage, permissioning, WebDAV. Wiki markup language, HTML plugin
script plugin
No formulas
iMeet Central
2005
Non-free ? 762,167[3] 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
2016
Free/paid[4] No 146,737[5] 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
2002
Free No[6] Copyleft (choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses) 1,079,474[7] 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
2005
Non-free No 11,248[8] 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[9])
2002
Non-free[10] No Wiki creators can set their own. 534,330[11] Yes No ? ? Enterprise Wiki. Supports text, rich text, embedded images, video, and attachments (including from email). Derived from Kwiki
Fandom/Wikia
2004
Free Yes Creative Commons 105[12] 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.[13] 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
Wikidot
2006
Free/paid Yes By default Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses as requested 2,996[14] ? Yes Yes ? 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, advanced forum for each site.Private messages between users. No limit on site size. Public and private wikis. Modified Text_Wiki[15] engine Multilingual interface possibilities (translations done by users-volunteers)[16] and Community support in English, French and German No HTML,[1]
CSS styling
LaTeX math formulas
Wikispaces (Closed in 2018[17])
2005
Free/paid[lower-alpha 3] No Choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses; only educational wikis are free[18] 3,823[19] Yes Yes Yes Yes No limits on numbers of pages, spaces, or members. Full RSS support. Blog import function/ integration. [?] (custom) Optional HTML,[1]
Unknown script
Math formulas

See also

Notes

  1. Approximative rank according to Alexa Internet.
  2. Confluence has no free hosted option, but offers free software for charitable nonprofits and open source projects.
  3. Wikispaces private and plus accounts are free for K-12 educators.

References

  1. "WikiMatrix - Compare them all" (selectable table), WikiMatrix, 2007, webpage: wikimatrix-org-main.
  2. "Atlassian.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  3. "Centraldesktop.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  4. "Pricing - Nuclino". Nuclino. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  5. "Nuclino.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  6. "Ourproject.org Manifesto". Ourproject.org. July 2006. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  7. "Ourproject.org Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  8. "Pbworks.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  9. "SocialText Merges With PeopleFluent After Sale". CMSWire.com. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
  10. "SocialText Packages & Pricing". Socialtext.com. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  11. "Socialtext.net Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. 2018-04-22. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  12. "fandom.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic". Alexa. 2020-01-30. Archived from the original on 2020-01-30. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
  13. "wikia.com, Help:Semantic MediaWiki". wikia.com. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
  14. "Wikidot.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  15. "Text_Wiki". php.net.
  16. "Translate Wikidot!". wikidot.com.
  17. http://blog.wikispaces.com/. Retrieved 2018-02-19. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  18. Wikispaces is no longer offering free non-education wikis, September 16, 2014
  19. "Wikispaces.com Traffic, Demographics and Competitors". Alexa. 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
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