MediaWiki Alternatives

MediaWiki is described as 'Free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis' and is a very popular Wiki Engine in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to MediaWiki for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux and SaaS apps. The best MediaWiki alternative is Google Docs, which is free. Other great apps like MediaWiki are TiddlyWiki, Docmost, Ibis Wiki and DokuWiki.

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  1. openNAMU icon
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    Python-based wiki engine.

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    • Online
    • Windows
    • Android
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Mac
     
  2. Your personal encyclopedia! Summarize any online content and save it to your knowledge base where it's automatically organized and interlinked for easy rediscovery.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  3. MoinMoin icon
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    MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users. MoinMoin's storage mechanism is based on flat files and folders, rather than a database. MoinMoin supports plugins and can be extended via Macros and Actions.

    17 MoinMoin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. YesWiki icon
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    Interoperable website engine built for easy cooperation: create, feed and display collaborative database, encapsulated tools and websites... it works great as a central station to welcome and redirect collaborators.

    14 YesWiki alternatives

    Cost / License

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    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  5. Slab icon
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    Slab is a knowledge hub for the modern workplace. We help teams unlock their full potential through shared learning and documentation. Slab features a beautiful editor, blazing fast search, and dozens of integrations like Slack, GitHub, and G Suite.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. ShoutWiki icon
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    ShoutWiki is a free, ad-supported wiki hosting company that offers hosting support to individuals, companies, schools, universities, as well as a diverse range of communities. MediaWiki is the syntax of hosted wiki-sites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • MediaWiki
     
  7.  1 like

    A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
     
  8. OneBar icon
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    OneBar is a Q&A Knowledge Base for your team. It is like StackOverflow or Quora, but it’s private for your team, optimized for collaboration, and integrates with the systems that you use at work.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Slack
     
  9. Raneto icon
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    Raneto is an open source Knowledgebase platform that uses static Markdown files to power your Knowledgebase.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Node.JS
    • Cloudron
     
  10. Herodotus icon
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    Herodotus has been designed as easy to use archival software, created to serve as an offline information reference when internet access in unavailable. Herodotus is not designed to be a personal "wayback machine", instead its focus is on providing a handy offline...

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. ProWiki icon
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    ProWiki is a collaborative knowledge management tool for teams and organizations.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. Pmwiki icon
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    PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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