The following table shall provide an overview and comparison of the most interesting features and differences between major Wiki implementations. See also CommunityWiki:WikiEngine and the canonical list at Wiki:WikiEngines

WikiEngines table

The ugly abbreviations have been removed in this version, and are only listed below for the benefit of listing all feautures in the according categories.

Some categories and ideas howeve still need explaining:

• license contains also notes about the development (or vendor) - if it is a pet project of someone “prs” or multiple people “grp” or big crowds “org” work on it
• general lists the programming language and if a wiki runs stand-alone (a full screen web site) or as graphical app
• charset/i18n support is also denoted in the ‘general’ row, like some overall design principles
• the database row should be self-explainatory, but that it sometimes mentions exceptions and drawbacks (like missing versioning); ‘SubWikis’ divide the database into separate namespaces, ‘extensible’ there means that a real database abstraction layer is present and you could use your own database scheme
• the linking category lists features and exceptions like missing support for CamelCase or FreeLinks or if an engine isn’t suitable for the interwiki network
• as there are no agreed on major markup names, that row only tries to document known descendants and markup variants and some styling and editing features
• the features list note the interesting extensions and available add-ons or so, where “PageMacros(nn)” denotes the number of optional in-page plugins for dynamic content

Also have a look at the following comparison tables/lists:

• http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/WikiEngineComparison
• and of course Wiki:WikiChoicetree to some extend
• http://www.wikiservice.at/gruender/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=WikiEngineVergleich is suddenly only available in German
• http://openspirit.de/noowiki/WikiSoftwareImVergleich also in German, and its only avaialble through the [GoogleCache] currently