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A "wiki farm" is a server or a collection of servers that provides wiki hosting, or a group of wikis hosted on such servers. The following tables compare general information for a number of wiki farms. Please see the individual sites' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up to date.
MediaWiki farms
| Wiki farm | Price | Features | Wiki engine | Content license | |
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| BluWiki | free | For the software just a single wiki, not a wiki farm, but the site's purpose is to enable users to publish their own pages and subpages with few content restrictions, not to contribute to a common body of knowledge. No subscription needed, users can quickly make new wiki articles. Financially supported by OdioWorks, LLC. | MediaWiki 1.6.7 | ||
| EditThis.info | free (has text ads) | Wiki farm with unlimited pages and users, wiki spam protection, 25MB of disk space, and RSS feeds and user rights control. | MediaWiki 1.5.5 | Wiki creators can set their own | |
| ElWiki.com | free (has text ads} | Fast setup. A free ElWiki-owned .com/net/org TLD is offered for wikis which reach 10 pages of content. Google AdSense text-ads may be added to the right sidebar. | MediaWiki 1.6.7 | GFDL | |
| Gratis-Wiki | free | namespace names are in German; there are no other skins than Monobook; 100MB of disk space | MediaWiki 1.5.6 | ||
| MyWikiHosting | free and paid options | Build wiki applications, WYSIWYG editor, participate in Wiki Workshops | |||
| Wikia | free (has text ads) | Wikia (formerly known as Wikicities) is a wiki hosting service created in 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. All wikis have common login and preferences. Creation of a wiki is subject to approval; it must have a large potential audience and be likely to attract enough editors. Projects which overlap existing Wikia or Wikimedia are not accepted. There is no means to close an inactive wikia, even if the community has moved elsewhere. Domains, names and identifiers are owned by Wikia Inc, not by the respective communities. There is also a Scratchpad wiki subdivided in categories ("mini-wikis") that welcomes all content. | MediaWiki 1.7alpha | GFDL | |
| Uncyclomedia | free | An individual server in Vancouver, BC which hosts a couple dozen projects, including various adaptations of Uncyclopedia into various languages. Non-commercial licence, no ads, (optionally) downloadable backups, no restrictions on use of externally-registered domain names. | MediaWiki 1.8alpha | Creative Commons |
Other wiki farms
The Wikis listed below have their own Wikitext markup convention, e.g., although most wikis use ==Heading== for Section headings, this is not consistently the case. Image tags, tables, html and link tags vary widely. This is not a big issue if you wish to use a wiki farm to post brand new content. You will have to learn a new Wikitext markup but the WYSIWYG editors available on most wikis below make that task very easy.
| Wiki farm | Price | Features | Wiki engine | Content license |
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| Atwiki.com | free | WYSIWYG-mode and Wiki-mode | ||
| Centada | from $4.95 per month | WYSIWYG editing, user-friendly interface. Comes included with 2 free domain names. Choice of 60 website templates at no extra cost. Virus shield and spam shield for Centada WebMail. One-click backups in zip and tgz. | PhpWiki and TikiWiki | choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses |
| Central Desktop | free and paid options | WYSIWYG editing, access control, full-text search, document management, light project management, database, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, rss enabled, ideal for team collaboration | custom wiki engine |
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| CustomerVision BizWiki | paid | WYSIWYG editing, access control, page templates, domain mapping, solution templates include Sales Support, Learning Support, and Project Communication | Custom Wiki-engine built on Microsoft platform | |
| EditMe.com | paid | subscription-based, SSL Encryption, Custom Domain Support, etc. | custom wiki engine written in Java | |
| eTouch SamePage | paid | WYSIWYG editing,project management, permissioning, administration and support for multiple domains | Custom Wiki-Engine built on J2EE powered by eTouch CMS | |
| JotSpot Wiki | free and paid options | Build wiki applications, WYSIWYG editor, search MS attachments, email integration. Free version limited to 20 pages and 5 users | ||
| LittleWiki | free | WYSIWYG editor and plaintext editors | custom (Java) | |
| MojWiki | free | Wiki farm like On-wiki, in Slovenian language. | MoinMoin | |
| Nexdo (formerly Partnertext) | free and paid options | WYSIWYG HTML editing | custom wiki engine |
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| Oddwiki | free | Oddmuse | ||
| On-wiki | free | World wide wiki farm, featuring WYSIWYG, attachments, multimedia, writing formulaes, plotting graphs, raw html, and more | MoinMoin |
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| Ourproject.org | free | Full GForged site open to new projects, which have a wiki for document collaboration and Wiki farm | MoinMoin | Copyleft (choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses) |
| PBwiki | free and paid options | Hosts simple, password-protected wikis on .pbwiki.com subdomain. No page limits, SSL, RSS & Atom, ZIP backups, diff, over 90,000 wikis already hosted, six wiki "skins", file uploads, page hiding, page locking | custom wiki engine | |
| ProjectForum | paid | custom wiki engine | ||
| Riters.com | free | line document collaboration service and Wiki farm | MoinMoin | |
| Schtuff.com | free | Supports tags & permissions. Easy backups, but no automatic recovery, if data is lost from server. Registered users can also leave comments on pages. Supports totally open pages, as well. Google-ads displayed at the side of each page. Picture Gallery included w/ new wikis | Doesn't require a particular license for contributed material | |
| SeedWiki | free and paid options | supported by google-ads placed at the bottom of the page; cross-platform WYSIWYG editing, stylesheets, subdomains.seedwiki.com, wiki-mode, subscriptions, plus a host of other things; paid option for removal of Google ads and for having one's own domain that the wiki-owner can tag on to his wiki | ||
| SnoutHold Cospire | free | WYSIWYG editing, permissions, public/private security models, ratings, feedback mechanims, search engine, category organizer, profiles | Custom wiki engine built on new knowledge management principles | |
| Socialtext | paid | custom wiki engine | ||
| Uwiki.com | free | First free wiki farm for Chinese | DokuWiki | |
| Wetpaint | free | Features: True WYSIWYG Editing, Custom Page Heirarchies, Comment and Reply Forums with Comment Ratings, Access Control, Keyword Search, Tags, Tag Filtering, Skins, RSS, Page Locking, Profiles, Site Activity Report, Page and Comment Watching | Custom Java-based engine | Creative Commons |
| Wiki.com | free | 100MB of disk space | DekiWiki | |
| Wikidot.com | free | Sites get a subdomain on wikidot.com and 1 free custom domain mapping. Free Sites are supported by ads. RSS import/export, private RSS feeds for Users (notifications and watched items), RSS for page changes and forum, customizable themes, 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 for clean interface. SEO-friendly. No limits on site size. | heavily modified Text_Wiki engine | Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses |
| Wikihost.org | free | GeboGebo | ||
| WikiNote | Free | No limit on number of pages (64KB/page limit) or number of accounts, complete page history, integration with Shortify | custom engine (PHP-based); runs on WS Network UI/logon system | No enforced license |
| Wikispaces | free and paid options | WYSIWYG editing, clean easy to use interface, users get a subdomain on wikispaces.com. Free version supported by Google ads - Wikispaces ads can be turned off for a fee. No limits on numbers of pages, spaces, or members. Full RSS support; easy space backups in zip and tgz. Blog import function/ integration with Blogger.com and Typepad. Themes and stylesheets can be customized. Private label service available. | custom wiki engine | choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses
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| Xwiki.com | free and paid options | XWiki |
See also
- Wikibooks:Wiki Science:How to start a Wiki - lots more information and tips about building a wiki community
- Wiki:WikiFarms list of wiki farms from the original wiki
- Wiki farm