WikiEngineTree

WikiEngineTree — this tree shows roughly how various developments are (or were) interrelated. For a full list of wiki engines we have indexed here on WikiIndex, see Category:Wiki Engine.

The tree is a subjective approach to a classification of wiki engines according to their origins (where the original programmer of the wiki engine got the idea of deriving a new wiki engine).

In other words: this is supposed to be a tree of the evolution of wiki engines (not wiki forums, but wiki engines). It is supposed to show where a wiki engine was derived from. Of course, this can be very subjective.

Page format
Please try to list information in the following order:


 * wiki engine; year the development of the wiki engine started; name of first programmer; original programming language of the wiki engine; its relation to any existing wiki engines; project or community the engine was originally made for [if any]; basic features that are new,

by using (the leading hash # generates the auto-numbering):

#Engine Name — year; author; prog lang; relation; other comment

Wiki Engine tree
Apple HyperCard stack for Tektronix — 19YY; WardCunningham; ???; Ward's Tektronix colleagues ->
 * WikiWikiWeb — 1994; WardCunningham; Perl; Portland Pattern Repository/patterns community; first wiki
 * 1) ThoughtsWeaver — ca. 1996; JimCoplien; ???;
 * 2) CvWiki — 1997; PeterMerel; Perl; GreenCheese (?); WayBackMode
 * 3) TunesWiki — 19YY; ; ???;
 * 4) AtisWiki — 1998; MarcusDenker; Perl; ATIS/University of Karlsruhe; transclusion of Web pages
 * 5) UniToWiki — 19YY; EnricoPasini; Perl; University of Turin
 * 6) UseModWiki — 1999; CliffordAdams; Perl; Usenet Moderation Project; subpages
 * 7) PurpleWiki — 19YY; ; Perl;
 * 8) ProWiki — 2000; HelmutLeitner; Perl; DseWiki, GründerWiki, TolkienWiki, Wiki4D, DorfWiki, OurCulture; fractality
 * 9) Oddmuse — 2001; AlexSchröder; Perl; EmacsWiki; subwikis
 * 10) FsiWiki — 20YY; ; Perl??;
 * 11) WikkiTikkiTavi — 20YY; ; PHP; KeptPages
 * 12) Wiki::Toolkit — 2002; KakePugh; Perl;
 * 13) OpenGuides — 2002; KakePugh; Perl;
 * 14) MediaWiki — 2002; MagnusManske; PHP; Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation; wiki namespaces
 * 15) GetWiki — ca. 2003; ; PHP; Wikinfo/ibiblio; importation of wiki pages
 * 16) CocoaDevWiki — 19YY; ; ???;
 * 17) Clublet — ca. 2000; RichardDrake; Perl; WhyClublet; sign-in
 * 18) Dinki — 20YY; ; Perl;
 * 19) QuikWiki — 20YY; ; ???;
 * 20) QuickiWiki — ca. 1999-2001; WardCunningham; Perl; The Wiki Way CD; similar to WikiWikiWeb
 * 21) ClusterWiki — 1999; BoLeuf; Perl; The Wiki Way CD; runs a cluster of wiki forums on a single wiki engine
 * 22) Kwiki aka KwikiKwiki — 19YY; BrianIngerson; Perl; ;
 * 23) Socialtext — 19YY; ; Perl (?); ;
 * 24) PikiPiki — 1999; MartinPool; Python;
 * 25) PikiePikie — 2000; StevePike; Python;
 * 26) MoinMoin — 2000; JürgenHermann; Python; web.de
 * 27) TipiWiki — 19YY; ; PHP;
 * 28) FatWiki — 19YY; ; ???;
 * 29) PeanutButterWiki aka Pbwiki — 19YY; DavidWeekly; PHP; PBWiki wiki farm
 * 30) TipiWiki2 — 19YY; ; PHP;
 * 31) WakkaWiki aka Wakka — 19YY; CarlosZottman / HendrikMans; PHP;
 * 32) CoMaWiki — 19YY; CostalMartignier; PHP;
 * 33) CooCooWakka — 19YY; YeGu; PHP;
 * 34) UniWakka — 19YY; ; PHP;
 * 35) WackoWiki — 2003; AlekseyKulakov; PHP;
 * 36) WikkaWakkaWiki aka WikkaWiki — 2004; JasonTourtelotte; PHP;
 * 37) WikiNi — 20YY; ; PHP;
 * 38) PmWiki — 19YY; PatrickMichaud; PHP;
 * 39) Green Light Wiki — 19YY; BenKovitz; ???;
 * 40) JosWiki — 19YY; ; Java (?); Java Operating System
 * 41) KeheiWiki — 19YY; BobRacko; ???;
 * 42) TWiki — 19YY; PeterThoeny; Perl;
 * 43) Foswiki — 19YY; FoswikiForkers; Perl;
 * 44) Zwiki — 1999; SimonMichael; Python+Zope;
 * 45) XWiki — 2003; Ludovic Dubost; Java;
 * 46) PlikiWiki — 2005; JohnMorden; Perl;