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Wiki is the Hawaiian word for “fast” (as in swift, rather than the abstinence from food). In the Hawaiian culture, doubling the word to WikiWiki gives it emphasis (as in very fast). The term Wiki can also be thought of as the pseudo-acronym “What I Know Is.” The first Wiki on the WWW, created by Ward Cunningham ca. 1995, was the WikiWikiWeb.

Sometimes referred to as Groupware, the hallmarks of a Wiki system include:

• A Web site with content that is collaborative, or community-driven.
• Content is added or edited using a simplified markup language.
• Content is created or edited from any browser in a sandbox.
• A sandbox allows the author to preview changes before publishing them.
• Changes are stored in a version history and can be reverted.
• A Wiki may be entirely open to the public, or require authorization.
• Due to its nature, a Wiki is a growing, shifting database of information.
• Links to other pages on the Wiki are easily created and encouraged.

Perhaps the best-known, highly trafficked, and at times, controversial, Wiki on the Web is Wikipedia. Due to its high-profile, Wikipedia is often the source of internal power struggles.

Wikipedia is just one project managed by the Wikimedia Foundation.

• Wiktionary — dictionary
• Wikiquote — quotations
• Wikisource — library
• Wikibooks — textbooks
• Wikispecies — flora and fauna
• Wikinews — news articles
• Wikiversity — learning community

And speaking of struggles, I had a hard time deciding where to place this category. In the end I decided to create it as a sub-category of PHP because the best known Wiki package, like many others, is written in PHP.

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Updated: Thursday, November 20th, 2008 @ 6:20 PM EST

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• 1.MediaWiki

  If you're looking for a Wiki package written in PHP, then look no further than MediaWiki, a free implementation developed by the fine folks at Wikipedia and related sites. MediaWiki uses a MySQL database backend and installation is incredibly simple. [1541]

  ★★★★★
  URI:http://mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
  Author:
  Wikimedia Foundation
  [2]
  Reviewed:Sunday, October 16th, 2005 @ 12:41 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  MediaWiki developerinstallmysqlphpwiki
   

• 2.MediaWiki+FCKeditor

  Integrates the rich browser-based FCKeditor HTML editor into MediaWiki. But rather than producing HTML, it generates Wikitext. This way you have the best of both worlds, since you can use the GUI controls and still edit the markup manually in the sandbox. [1841]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://mediawiki.fckeditor.net/
  Author:
  Frederico Caldeira Knabben
  [2]
  Reviewed:Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 @ 5:15 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  MediaWiki+FCKeditor browsereditorsguihtmlmarkupwiki
   

• 3.DokuWiki

  Aimed more at developers, DokuWiki is a standards-compliant, simple to use wiki, designed to create documentation of any kind. Its markup language is simple yet powerful, and documents are stored as plain text files so no database system is required. [1821]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki
  Author:
  Andreas Gohr
  [1]
  Reviewed:Thursday, November 13th, 2008 @ 1:05 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  DokuWiki developermarkupphpstandardswiki
   

• 4.Semantic MediaWiki

  A MediaWiki extension that allows humans and software to search, organize, tag, browse, evaluate, and share content, which is difficult with traditional wiki systems. SMW adds these metadata features, bringing the power of the Semantic Web to the wiki. [1820]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://semantic-mediawiki.org/
  Author:
  SMW Project Contributors
  [1]
  Reviewed:Thursday, November 13th, 2008 @ 12:48 PM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Semantic MediaWiki extensionmetadataphpsearchsemantic webtaggingwiki
   

• 5.TikiWiki

  Billing itself as Groupware, and both a CMS and a Wiki, TikiWiki is a popular PHP-based Web site builder. Other features include blogs, forums, RSS feeds, calendars and events, file and image galleries, user and group management, and surveys and polls. [1819]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://tikiwiki.org/
  Author:
  Luis Argerich
  [1]
  Reviewed:Thursday, November 13th, 2008 @ 11:59 AM EST
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  TikiWiki blogcmsfeedforumopen-sourcephprsswiki
   

• 6.PhpWiki

  A clone of the original WikiWikiWeb in PHP. Quickly set-up a site where anyone can add or edit pages to form a collaborative resource. "The Universe tends toward chaos. The Universe tends toward Wiki" Nicely done, hosted by SourceForge. [1277]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/
  Author:
  Steve Wainstead
  [1]
  Reviewed:Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 @ 11:51 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  PhpWiki phpwiki
   

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