About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Free wiki software, Personal wikis, Proprietary wiki software, UseModWiki, WikiWikiWeb, PhpWiki, MediaWiki, Comparison of wiki software, Midgard, Traction TeamPage, List of wiki software, TWiki, MindTouch Deki, Cyn.in, Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware, TiddlyWiki, PmWiki, ThoughtFarmer, Google Sites, WikkaWiki, Telligent Community, SharpForge, MojoMojo, JSPWiki, MindTouch, Inc., MoinMoin, Knowledge Plaza, DokuWiki, Fossil, XWiki, LibreSource, Blogtronix, WikiServer, ConcourseConnect, Jive SBS, JAMWiki, Redmine, WackoWiki, Wikispaces, Gnote, FlexWiki, WikidPad, Oddmuse, CoWiki, WikiCalc, CodeBeamer, Ppcsoft iknow, Zwiki, ScrewTurn Wiki, Bumblehood, Svnwiki, WikiTimeScale, NotePub, SamePage, Swiki, ConnectedText, WakkaWiki, WikiNi, Mindquarry, Gitit, PukiWiki, CLiki, Pimki, CustomerVision BizWiki, IpbWiki, Wiki Server, HDWiki, ErfurtWiki, Instiki, Wikifs, TigerWiki, PHPTiddlyWikis. Excerpt: MediaWiki is a popular free web-based wiki software application. Developed by the Wikimedia Foundation, it is used to run all of its projects, including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikinews. Numerous other wikis around the world also use it to power their websites. It is written in the PHP programming language and uses a backend database. The first version of the software was deployed to serve the needs of the free content Wikipedia encyclopedia in 2002. It has been deployed since then by many companies as a content management system for internal knowledge management. Notably, Novell uses it to operate several of its high-traffic websites. Thousands of websites use MediaWiki. Some educators have also assigned students to use MediaWiki for collaborative group projects. The software is optimized to efficiently handle projects of all sizes, including the largest wikis, which can have terabytes of content and hundreds of thousands of hits per sec...
