MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia.

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PHP

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.

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The Best 42 MediaWiki Alternatives

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Zim

Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Portable Text formatting Hierarchical structure WYSIWYG Support Sync with Dropbox File Versioning Nested Notes
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Tomboy

Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in post-industrial Australia? Or...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD
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TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki is a highly customizable notewiki for capturing, organising and sharing complex information.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Web Self-Hosted Xfce

MarkDown support Multiple languages Encrypted Notes Wiki like interface
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wikidPad

wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Wiki like interface Cross Linking
144 Like

DokuWiki

DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted Cloudron

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Flexible
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XWiki

A powerful Open Source collaborative platform enhancing collaboration and communication.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

Multiple languages Real time collaboration File search Built in editor Extensibility
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Nuclino

Nuclino is the easiest way to organize and share knowledge in teams. Create real-time collaborative documents and connect them instantly like a wiki. Use the tree, board, and graph view to explore and organize your knowledge visually.

Freemium Web

MarkDown support Real time collaboration WYSIWYG Support Knowledge base
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Confluence

Leading collaboration software and enterprise wiki for intranets and knowledge management.

Commercial Web Cloudron

Real time collaboration Batch image manipulation
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Notion

With so many tools, it's hard to keep everyone on the same page. Notion is a new tool that unifies them all. It's like Google Docs, but everything is organized and discoverable by your team. Real collaboration in real-time.

Freemium Windows iPhone iPad Web Mac

Collaborative writing Google Drive integration MarkDown support Integrated Search Real time collaboration Drag n drop Support for @mentions Slack integration Embedded media Team Collaboration Syntax Highlighting Wiki like interface Youtube integration Knowledge base Real time editing
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BookStack

An open source knowledge management application that's focused on ease of use.

Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted

WYSIWYG Support Knowledge base
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MDwiki

MDwiki is a CMS/Wiki completely built in HTML5/Javascript and runs 100% on the client. No special software installation or server side processing is required. Just upload the mdwiki.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable MarkDown support Self Hosted Feature
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Lessons Learned Server

Lessons Learned Server is a light-weight knowledge-base web application with powerful editing capabilities. Based on PHP and MySQL. Available as a downloadable server application or via cloud hosting. .

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Web
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Referata

Referata offers hosting of semantic wikis, allowing you to add, structure and store data so it can be managed, shared, browsed and analyzed in as many ways as you choose. Free: unlimited Wiki pages and 100MB file storage.

Freemium Web Self-Hosted
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Pmwiki

PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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MoinMoin

MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users. MoinMoin's storage mechanism is based on flat files and folders, rather than a database.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted
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Banana Dance Wiki/CMS

Free open source software combining the best of wiki and CMS with community building-features.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux PHP
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Foswiki

Foswiki is the free and open source enterprise collaboration platform. Foswiki is a wiki, so you and your team members can collaborate and edit pages directly in the web browser.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web
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WackoWiki

WackoWiki is a light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine. Supports WYTIWYG-editing, page rights (ACLs), page comments, file uploads, email notification, design themes (skins) and much more.

Free Open Source Self-Hosted
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Twiki

TWiki is leading open source enterprise wiki and Web 2.0 application platform used by 50,000 small businesses, many Fortune 500 companies, and millions of people.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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Wiki.js

Write your content in the widely used and simple Markdown format, using the built-in visual editor. Unlike other wiki software that save content in a database with a difficult to extract format, Wiki.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

MarkDown support Real time collaboration Built in search engine Built in authentication

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The Best 42 MediaWiki Alternatives

Zim

Tomboy

TiddlyWiki

wikidPad

DokuWiki

XWiki

Nuclino

Confluence

Notion

BookStack

MDwiki

Lessons Learned Server

Referata

Pmwiki

MoinMoin

Banana Dance Wiki/CMS

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