By: Julia Aidan
Submitted: 2009-05-29 06:36:44 | Word Count: 644
Wiki Software is a type of collaborative software which runs Wiki System. Characteristically this allows webpages to be edited and formed utilizing a standard webbrowser. It is generally executed as application software which runs on normally one or different web servers. The contents are stored in file system and any modifications to the matter are stored in a relational database-management system.
Web-based: In 1955, Ward Cunningham formed the very first system, but given the relative simplicity of wiki concept, a vast number of implementations exist now, ranging from the very simple 'hacks' implementing only the core functionality to the extremely complicated content-management systems. The primary disparity between the wikis and the more complex kinds of content-management system is that, wiki software takes care of focusing on content at the cost of powerful control on the layout which is viewed in CMS (Content-Management Software) such as Joomla, WebGUI and Drupal or at the cost of non-wiki features (blogs, new articles, etc.) such as those in TikiWiki CMS or Groupware (that's|which is} an Wiki-CMS hybrid).
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Wiki Software can be taken as comprising all of software needed to run wiki which may include webserver like Apache in addition to Wiki engine itself which executes the wiki technology. The wiki engine as well as web server in majority of} cases are put together as single self contained system which can frequently make them easy to install. For instance, MojoMojo needs no distinct webserver at all.
Majority of engines are free or open source software very frequently obtainable under GNU GPL (General-Public License); bigger engines like TWiki, PmWiki, TikiWiki Groupware or CMS and the MediaWiki, Wikipedia engine are jointly build. Numerous wikis are extremely modular which provides APIs that allow the programmer to develop new features without requiring them to be recognized with complete codebase.
It is hard to find out which of the wiki engines are extremely popular although listing of lead candidate comprises PmWiki, MoinMoin, DokuWiki, MediaWiki, TWiki and XWiki. Atlassian Confluence, TWiki and Traction Team Page are much recognized on intranets. Tiki-Wiki Groupware or CMS is a accepted Wiki CMS hybrid.
Personal: Numerous wiki applications aren't intended to work jointly, but for content management or for own information organizing. Such applications are frequently referred to as Personal Wikis or Desktop Wikis.
Mobile: Mobile wiki-software is an expansion of the web based wikis which are optimized for the mobile devices, specially mobile phones. It is generally done by providing a version of website with conservative HTML-coding optimized for restricted function browsers on mobile devices such as the iPhone or Blackberry.
Offline: Numerous attempts have been attempted to give wiki function when the users are not on internet. One easy attempt comprises to making a copy of wiki database and view it in read only mode. Offline editing for extremely complex systems need synchronization of alterations when network is again online. An easy effort to doing this is to use a distributed revision of control system as backend of wiki. For instance, ikiwiki.
There are plenty of websites which use Wiki Software:
