{"id":145,"date":"2005-06-15T18:19:40","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T22:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/06\/15\/wiki-platform-proliferation\/"},"modified":"2005-06-15T18:19:40","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T22:19:40","slug":"wiki-platform-proliferation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/06\/15\/wiki-platform-proliferation\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiki platform proliferation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a913'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In tracking down groups to invite to Wikimania, I&#8217;ve discovered a<br \/>\nwealth of active wiki platforms populated by entirely different circles<br \/>\nof users, and promoted on different social\/blog circles as well. Let&#8217;s<br \/>\nsee how many I can list (NB: capitalizations not CaMel perfect):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\">MediaWiki<\/a>.  Low on ACLs, manuals, and single-user snappiness, high on scalability and install speed.  Server cluster compatible.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twiki.org\">Twiki<\/a>.  Oldie and goodie.  Endlessly extended; a frankenstein of great bits that often work well together.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xwiki.com\">Xwiki<\/a>.  Ludovic&#8217;s baby.  Neatly modular, cleverly multilingual, a jack of all trades.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialtext.com\">Socialtext<\/a>.  The most open of the enterprise wikis.  Pretty swell.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jotspot.com\">JotSpot<\/a>.  The early leader in &#8220;how hot is enterprise wiki?&#8221; VC circles, afaik.  Flashy.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlassian.com\/confluence\">Confluence<\/a>.<br \/>\nAtlassian&#8217;s editable workspace; not called a wiki for the first year of<br \/>\nits life. Compatible with an endless collection of databases and<br \/>\nmiddleware platforms. Largest enterprise-wiki userbase.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snipsnap.com\">Snipsnap<\/a>.  Fundamental notion of snips, for transclusion and reuse.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/\">PurpleWiki<\/a>.  Niche case contender; primarily used by its creators and as an example application of Purple Numbers.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usemod.com\">UseMod<\/a> wiki.  MediaWiki&#8217;s ancestor.  Stable.  Unchanging.  Stuck in 2001.\n<\/li>\n<li>Historical wikis : <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.org\">c2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meatball.org\">meatball<\/a>, others which helped mould the philosophy of the budding tool.\n<\/li>\n<li>Planned wikis Of The Future : WordPress-wiki (another<br \/>\ncontender for the name wikipress by another contender for the acronym<br \/>\nWP?), WorldCat wiki, &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Free wiki hosts (with ads): <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In English:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikispaces.org\/\">wikispaces<\/a>, with beautiful layout and inline stats,&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikicities.com\">wikicities<\/a> (jwales &amp; wikia), schtuff (brian), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedwiki.com\">seedwiki<\/a> (since 2001),&nbsp; xwiki (ludo himself),&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbwiki.com\">pbwiki<\/a> &#8230; \n  <\/li>\n<li>In other languages : [a few german hosts I need to look up.]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other wiki hosts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Broken<\/span> wiki hosts: atwiki, swiki (another xwiki site?), &#8230;\n <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Non-free<\/span> wiki hosts :&nbsp; Sometimes there is one combined with each non-free wiki platform&#8230;&nbsp;\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More entries, and links, to come&#8230; please suggest your own favorites<br \/>\nto add to the list. If you have favorite wiki hosts, free or non, you<br \/>\ncan mention them as well. I&#8217;ll get around to doing a comparison of them<br \/>\none of these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tracking down groups to invite to Wikimania, I&#8217;ve discovered a wealth of active wiki platforms populated by entirely different circles of users, and promoted on different social\/blog circles as well. Let&#8217;s see how many I can list (NB: capitalizations not CaMel perfect): MediaWiki. Low on ACLs, manuals, and single-user snappiness, high on scalability and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-demand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-2l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}