Comparison of wiki hosting services

This comparison of wiki hosting services details 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.

General comparison

The following tables compare general information for several of the more than 100 wiki hosting services that have been created.^[1] The 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.

Wiki hosting service	Cost	Ads	Content license	Alexa rank[2]
iMeet Desktop	Paid	?		30,727[3]
Confluence Hosted	Non-free[4]	?		2,933[5]
eXo Cloud	Free/paid	?		596,280[6]
Miraheze	Free	No	Creative Commons	681,755[7]
Ourproject.org	Free	?	Copyleft (choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses)	1,343,558[8]
PBworks	Free/paid	No		6,063[9]
ShoutWiki	Free	Yes	Copyleft Creative Commons	43,931[10]
Socialtext Workspace Hosted	Non-free[11]	No	Wiki creators can set their own.	376,575[12][13]
Wikia	Free	Yes	Creative Commons	103[14]
Wiki.Wiki	Free[15]	Yes	Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License	separate domains
Wikidot	Free/paid	Yes/No	By default Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses as requested	3,967[16]
Wikispaces	Free/paid[17]	No	Choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses; only educational wikis are free[18]	2,026[19]
Wiki hosting service	Cost	Ads	Content license	Alexa rank

Technical comparison

Wiki hosting service	WYSIWYG editing	Features	Base wiki engine	Multilingual support	Syntax support
iMeet Desktop	Yes	Access control, full-text search, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, RSS enabled.	[?] (custom)		HTML,[1] CSS/templating No formulas
Confluence Hosted	Yes	Wiki markup language, plugins, SSL, file storage, permissioning, WebDAV.			HTML plugin script plugin No formulas
eXo Cloud	Yes	multi-wiki, permissions, PDF export, page hierarchy, templates, drafts, WEBDAV, email notifications, related pages	XWiki rendering engine		XWiki 2.0 syntax[20]
Miraheze	Yes	free .miraheze.org subdomain (any language you need) , provide support for your own custom domain, 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,[1] Wikitext, JavaScript, Math 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,[1] JavaScript, 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,[1] Wikitext, JavaScript, Math 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. Domains, names, and identifiers owned by Wikia Inc. No longer configures Semantic MediaWiki on request.[21] 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 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, 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. 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[22] engine	Multilingual interface possibilities (translations done by users-volunteers)[23] and Community support in French and German	No HTML,[1] CSS styling LaTeX math formulas
Wikispaces	Yes	Subdomain. No limits on numbers of pages, spaces, or members. Full RSS support; easy space backups in zip and tgz. Blog import function/ integration. Themes and stylesheets can be customized. Private label service available.	[?] (custom)		Optional HTML,[1] Unknown script Math formulas
Wiki hosting service	WYSIWYG editing	Features	Wiki engine	Multilingual support	Syntax support

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

1. "WikiMatrix - Compare them all" (selectable table), WikiMatrix, 2007, webpage: wikimatrix-org-main.
2. Approximative rank according to Alexa Internet. Click on the rank to get the last figures.
3. "centraldesktop.com Site Overview". Alexa. 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
4. Confluence has no free hosted option, but offers free software for charitable nonprofits and open source projects.
5. "atlassian.com Site Overview". Alexa. 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
6. "eXo Cloud Site Info". Alexa. 2014-06-02. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
7. "Miraheze.org Info". Alexa. 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
8. "ourproject.org Site Overview". Alexa. 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
9. "pbworks.com Site Overview". Alexa. 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
10. "shoutwiki.com Site Overview". Alexa. 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
11. "SocialText Packages & Pricing". Socialtext.com. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
12. "socialtext.net Site Overview". Alexa. 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
13. 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
14. "wikia.com Site Overview". Alexa. 2015-12-20. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
15. Wiki.Wiki home page has links to wikis. Their "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!"
16. "wikidot.com Site Overview". Alexa. 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
17. Wikispaces private and plus accounts are free for K-12 educators.
18. Wikispaces is no longer offering free non-education wikis, September 16, 2014
19. "wikispaces.com Site Overview". Alexa. 2015-06-21. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
20. Mortagne, Thomas. "XWiki Syntaxes". XWiki.org. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
21. "wikia.com, Help:Semantic MediaWiki". wikia.com. Retrieved 2009-07-22.
22. "Text_Wiki". php.net.
23. "Translate Wikidot!". wikidot.com.

External links

• Wiki farms at 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.
• InformationWeek, Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Content Management Systems, page 3-4
• WikiFarms - wikiteam - tools for archiving wikis.
• mw:Hosting services. MediaWiki page listing only MediaWiki-based hosting.