Creating wiki spaces
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Using Wikis to Build Library Web Spaces
Joyce Yukawa, MLIS Program, College of St. Catherine
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Getting started
Wiki Garden Tools 101: Your own garden or a patch on someone else's farm?
Use a hosted wiki on a wiki farm
Wiki farms (really, this is what they're called) provide the software and the server space for your wiki, so you can create a wiki without installing software or handling server and database administration. These are some popular free and commercial wiki farms:
- PBwiki - free and for fee wiki farm for all users, with education and small business focus
- Wikispaces - interest groups, education, small companies, social groups, individuals
- SeedWiki - professional, educational, and personal
- Wikia - wikis are owned by the communities, not by their founders so it is generally not possible to use your own domain name.
- WikiSpot - free for nonprofit wikis, no limits on pages or disk space. Wikis are intended to be autonomous, choosing their own license, top level domain.
- Socialtext - commercial wiki farm for businesses, individuals & developers
- MeatballWiki's list of Wiki farms
- Wikimatrix, Compare wiki software
Install your own wiki
If you have server and network capabilities and technical expertise available, you can install and manage your own wiki. These are some popular type of wiki software:
- MediaWiki - free, open source wiki software used for collaborative document creation and as a content management system (e.g., Wikipedia)
- PmWiki - free, open source wiki software designed to be easy to install and customize, so people with little IT or wiki experience will be able to put it to use.
- PhpWiki - free, open source wiki software written in PHP and a clone of the original WikiWikiWeb.
- Kwiki - free, open source wiki software is written in Perl, and comprised of lots of little software parts called plugins (around 200 available).
- Twiki - free, open source enterprise wiki software, collaboration platform, and knowledge management system. It is a structured wiki, typically used to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet.
- Wikipedia, Comparison of wiki software
- Wikimatrix, Compare wiki software
- MeatballWiki's comprehensive list of all Wiki engines
