# Wiki Software Alternatives

Looking for the best Wiki software?

- [http://www.wikimatrix.org/](http://www.wikimatrix.org/) – compare wiki features and requirements side by side. Try the Wizard, it lets you pick wikis by language, database/flatfile, commercial/open source.

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Here are some notes and recommendations I saw on the uwebd listserv.

- “Try Confluence. [http://www.atlassian.com/](http://www.atlassian.com/) It’s an enterprise wiki. Very nice. A free alternative is: MediaWiki. [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki)
- “I’ve been using TiddlyWiki for the last ten months in my lab. It’s free, and available at [http://www.tiddlywiki.com](http://www.tiddlywiki.com). I would highly recommend it. You can also read more about its ongoing development at Google groups: [http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki](http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki) The only downside is that it’s not as IE-friendly, and favors Firefox (which is fine by me because my audience and I primarily use Linux)”
- [http://www.oddmuse.org/](http://www.oddmuse.org/) “is easy to set up and use”
- [http://wikicities.com/](http://wikicities.com/)
- [http://www.wikispaces.com/](http://www.wikispaces.com/)
- [http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki](http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki) DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind.
- [http://www.squidoo.com/university-wiki/](http://www.squidoo.com/university-wiki/) A site where you can obtain free wiki for your school.

*This article was originally posted on the <span class="caps">UCLA</span> Programmers Wiki by Aaron Proctor.*

What would be nice is to have <span class="caps">UCLA</span> experience documented here:  
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**Prof. Jeffrey Lewis, Poli Sci**

- **MoinMoin** [http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/](http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/) – in Python – likes it very much
- **Trac** – “is a category killer for open source software development wiki/bug tracker, connected to Subversion area”

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**Mike Franks, Social Sciences Computing**

- **Twiki** [http://twiki.org/](http://twiki.org/) – used it for several years with student programmers, but couldn’t figure out how to use it to create many, small wikis for committees, small teams, etc.
- **Cluster Wiki** – from back of Bo Leuf/Ward Cunningham book [The Wiki Way](http://www.wiki.org/wiki.cgi?TheBook) but heavily modified for our purposes. Has been good for having many (around 30) wikis, but still doesn’t scale because it’s Perl <span class="caps">CGI</span> with no database, and though we could use ModPerl, I’d rather not. Haven’t tied it into <span class="caps">ISIS</span> yet because I’m still looking for a faster one that scales better.