
#TWIKI VS MEDIAWIKI SOFTWARE#
The software was designed to run Wikipedia, meaning they built it “to scratch their own itch.” You can read more about the history on their MediaWiki history page or the MediaWiki page on WikiPedia. The name “MediaWiki” came about in July 2003, the same year that Jimmy Wales created the Wikimedia Foundation. MediaWiki was originally written for Wikipedia, and Wikipedia itself was launched in January 2001. Product – what differences exist in the actual product.History and License – when and how did these two projects get started and what license each has.Yes, we are entering now the War of the Wikis! 🙂 Today we’re going to talk about exactly what differences do and don’t exist. But to really decide, we need more details about DokuWiki vs DokuWiki. The Internet Techies site indeed lists it as number 2 and many people feel it’s easier to use and more effective for many sites. MediaWiki is more well-known, but DokuWiki is trying to close the gap.


Seems clear that MediaWiki and DokuWiki are the top contenders. To see what’s happening in this market, let’s take a brief look at this Google Trends graph of interest in the top five packages over the past year (click to see the image larger): Google Trends In the open source wiki marketplace, there are several options, including MediaWiki, DokuWiki, TWiki, Tiki Wiki and TiddlyWiki, as well as smaller players such as MoinMoin, PmWiki, PhpWiki and WikkaWiki. Interested in finding the wiki that’s right for you?
