A software package that implements a WiKi.

They vary in the specific features they offer.

WikiWikiWeb:WikiEngines

singular: Wiki Engine

Should note how the "main" ones handle various possible Wiki Standards:

• Wiki Name rules

• Remote Wiki Links handling

• Smart Ascii type, ability to include/mix HTML

See WikiWikiWeb:WikiEngineReview

• also huge table (even comparing Smart Ascii rules) at [Wiki Matrix] http://www.wikimatrix.org

It would be nice if there were some shortlist of the "most popular" choices (in terms of "number of sites" or "number of public sites" or something...).

• on the other hand, for a techie who likes to get his hands dirty, the first criterion should probably be the underlying language/platform. I feel the same way about Content Management System selection.

WikiWikiWeb:QuickiWiki, WikiWikiWeb:WikiBase - PeRl - the original

• Camel Case only(?)

• no WikiWikiWeb:InterWikiMap support!

• WikiWikiWeb:TextFormattingRules

  • doubled and tripled single-quotes for italic and bold - yuk

  • don't double-break for bullet list

  • no HTML support

• RSS: Wiki Wiki Web doesn't have a feed (though there's at least one 3rd-party scraping available); [Quicki Wiki] does not appear to have feed support.

ZWiki (PyThon/ZoPe)

• standard Camel Case support, plus square brackets

• Remote Wiki U R L, each remote wiki must have its own page

• Structured Text, plus can use HTML

  • double-linebreaks, even within bullet list

  • asterisks/doubled for italic/bold

UseMod (used by Meatball Wiki): PeRl

• Camel Case, plus can use doubled square brackets

• UseMod:InterWikiDocumentation - uses single [Inter Map] page listing - wiki site name needs initial cap but doesn't need to be Camel Case!

• UseMod:TextFormattingRules - HTML tags for bold/italic (in addition to the lotsa-[Single Quote] style)

• RSS: uses v1 (RDF) - for 3 days of changes use http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?action=rss&days=1 ; uses dc:contributor for item author (with name in 'rdf:value'; no email); uses dc:date like 2003-11-19T07:14:01+00:00

Blue Oxen/Purple Wiki (PeRl, based on UseMod)

• Camel Case

• UseMod:InterWiki

• BlueOxen:TextFormattingRules variant of UseMod rules

KWiki: (PeRl)

• unique(?) Smart Ascii rules - KWiki:KwikiFormattingRules

Social Text (PeRl, not based on KWiki)

• unique Smart Ascii rules

TWiki (WikiWikiWeb:TwikiClone): PeRl

• ??

• RSS: uses v1/RDF

Snip Snap (JaVa)

[JspWiki] (JaVa, [JSP])

[Jass Wiki] ([MsIIS]/ASP)

[Wiki Dot Net] (C#, [Ms Dot Net])

Media Wiki: runs Wiki Pedia (PHP) -

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

Moin Moin (PyThon): seems to have a nice architecture for macros, parsers, etc.; see MoinMoin:HelpOnFormatting and MoinMoin:InterWiki

• really heavy use of single-quotes for italic/bold

• asterisks with no linebreaks (but with leading space?) to make bullet points

• external links - use square brackets to contain URI then space then label

• ....

• RSS: uses RSS v1/RDF

Piki Piki (PyThon) was the basis for Moin Moin (and some other Wiki Engines). Less-featured, but smaller.

• http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/EditingTips - similar to Moin Moin of course, hate those single-quotes. But at this point I think I have to give up and think of them as one of the Wiki Standards.

[PpQwiki] (PyThon) inspired by [QWiki] specifically designed for personal use. Even has some Free Mind support.

• yuck uses some sort of frames interface, which will really suck on a tiny Sharp Zaurus screen!

  • though it does seem to have a way to hide those menus, and maybe I could hack the code...

OddMuse - PeRl, used by [Emacs Wiki] and Community Wiki

Zwiki RSS feeds --2003/11/21 23:46 [GMT]

• RSS

  • RSS 2: ZWiki:RSS2

  • RDF: Notes at ZWiki:RSSFeeds

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