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If you’ve ever done a search at SourceForge for wikis, you know there’s a lot of them. Java, PHP, Perl, Python, ASP — there’s a wiki implementation for all programming flavors.

But, while variety is great, it makes choosing wiki software a hard task. In the article Which Open Source Wiki Works For You?, Shlomi Fish attempts to wade through wiki implementations.

The purpose of this article is to give an overview of several popular Wiki implementations and see how they fare. It is not trivial to switch from one Wiki implementation to the other, because this will usually require translating all of the pages from the old syntax to the new one. Thus, choosing a Wiki engine requires some care, taking possible future developments into account. This article will hopefully help you make that choice if the need arises.