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 TiddlyWiki, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MediaWiki are Google Docs, Docmost, Ibis Wiki and DokuWiki.

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  1. 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
     
  2. Slab icon
     11 likes

    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)
     
  3. YesWiki icon
     3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • MySQL Community Edition
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  4. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  5. MoinMoin icon
     12 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. OneBar icon
     2 likes

    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
     
  7. Herodotus icon
     4 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Raneto icon
     9 likes

    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
     
  9.  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
     
  10. ProWiki icon
     3 likes

    ProWiki is a collaborative knowledge management tool for teams and organizations.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Pmwiki icon
     14 likes

    PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. Docsify.js icon
     15 likes

    docsify generates your documentation website on the fly. Unlike GitBook, it does not generate static html files. Instead, it smartly loads and parses your Markdown files and displays them as website. All you need to do is create an index.

    55 Docsify.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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