List of Open Source Wiki Softwares Based on PHP MySQL

List of Open Source Wiki Softwares Based on PHP MySQL shows some free yet powerful Wiki softwares for you for Business, Educational, Personal or for marketing.

Preface to List of Open Source Wiki Softwares Based on PHP MySQL

You can look at our older article List of Open Source forum Softwares Based on PHP MySQL, in that article, you will get links to Open Source Free Blogging, E-Commerce  and other needful softwares.

This List of Open Source Wiki Softwares Based on PHP MySQL is mainly created for a reason, most business needs an How To or Help guide. List of Open Source Wiki Softwares Based on PHP MySQL can help them and also the institutions for their internal usage.

List of Open Source Wiki Softwares Based on PHP MySQL

MediaWiki : MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It’s designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation, that uses PHP to process and display data stored in a database, such as MySQL. Pages use MediaWiki’s wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily. Extensions are available to fine tune. The download size is ~70 MB.

DokuWiki : DokuWiki has many features but all of them are easy to learn. And many more can be added through the free plugin downloads. The list below should give you a first overview of what is available in DokuWiki.  is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. Download size is ~ 9 MB.

PhpWiki : PhpWiki is a clone of the original WikiWikiWeb. The addictive quality of a Wiki is that making pages is as simple as making a link to them. If they don’t yet exist, the page link will be followed by a hyperlinked question mark; follow that link and you can define the new page.  Download size is ~ 6 MB.

PmWiki : PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an “Edit” link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages into the website, using basic editing rules. You do not need to know or use any HTML or CSS. Page editing can be left open to the public or restricted to small groups of authors.  Download size is ~ 1.2 MB.

WikkaWiki : WikkaWiki is a flexible, standards-compliant and lightweight wiki engine written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages.  Designed for speed, extensibility, and security.  Download size is ~ 4 MB.

Foswiki : Foswiki is a wiki, so you and your team members can collaborate and edit pages directly in the web browser.
For advanced collaboration, Foswiki lets you enter macros to automate pages and build entire applications from within your browser. It is based on Perl.

JAMWiki : JAMWiki has Java-based Wiki engine but uses the same syntax and offers many of the features of MediaWiki.

MoinMoin Wiki :  MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users. Said in a few words, it is about collaboration on easily editable web pages. It is based on Python.

Although we named this article as List of Open Source Wiki Softwares Based on PHP MySQL, the list contains non PHP but Linux Server operable Wikis as well.