Wiki engine evolution tree

Template:TOCright WikiEngineTree — the tree in this article below shows roughly how various wiki engine (wiki software) developments are (or were) inter-related. 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 (or founder) of the wiki engine got the idea of deriving (or forking) a new wiki engine. In other words: this is supposed to be a tree of the evolution of wiki engines (not wiki forums or wiki sites, 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 (bold items are strongly preferred):

wiki engine — year the development of the wiki engine started; first programmer / founder name; programming language (original / primary) of the wiki engine; its relation to any existing wiki engines; project or community the engine was originally made for [if any]; notable and / or new features;

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

#[[:Category:Engine Name|Engine Name]] — year; author / founder; prog lang; relation; original use; other comment;

Wiki Engine tree

Apple HyperCard stack for Tektronix — 19YY; Ward Cunningham; ???; Ward's Tektronix colleagues; precursor to seeding the wiki concept

1. WikiWikiWeb — 1994; Ward Cunningham; Perl; Portland Pattern Repository / patterns community; first wiki site, aka Ward's Wiki; the actual wiki software would subsequently be released as 'Wiki Base'
   1. ThoughtsWeaver — ca. 1996; Jim Coplien; ???;
   2. CvWiki — 1997; Peter Merel; Perl; GreenCheese (?); WayBackMode
      1. TunesWiki — 199Y; ????????; ???;
      2. AtisWiki — 1998; Marcus Denker; Perl; ATIS / University of Karlsruhe; transclusion of web pages
         1. UniToWiki — 199Y; Enrico Pasini; Perl; University of Turin
         2. UseMod Wiki — 1999; CliffordAdams; Perl; Usenet Moderation Project; sub-pages
            1. ProWiki — 2000; HelmutLeitner; Perl; DseWiki, GründerWiki, TolkienWiki, Wiki4D, DorfWiki, OurCulture; fractality
            2. Oddmuse — 2001; Alex Schröder; Perl; EmacsWiki; sub-wikis [1]
               1. FsiWiki — 200Y; ????????; Perl??;
            3. WikkiTikkiTavi — 2000; Scott C. Moonen; PHP; KeptPages
            4. Wiki::Toolkit — 2002; Kake Pugh; Perl;
               1. OpenGuides — 2002; Kake Pugh; Perl; city wikis
            5. MediaWiki — 2002; Magnus Manske; PHP; Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation; wiki namespaces
               1. GetWiki — ca. 2003; ????????; PHP; Wikinfo / ibiblio; importation of wiki pages
            6. PurpleWiki — 2003; ????????; Perl; purple numbers
   3. JWiki — 1997; Ricardo Clements; Java; first wiki compiled in Java and first to use a database
   4. PhpWiki — 1999; Steve Wainstead; PHP;
   5. CocoaDevWiki — 199Y; ????????; ???;
   6. Clublet — ca. 2000; RichardDrake; Perl; WhyClublet; sign-in
   7. Dinki — 200Y; ????????; Perl;
      1. QuikWiki — 200Y; ????????; ???;
   8. QuickiWiki — ca. 1999-2001; Ward Cunningham; Perl; The Wiki Way CD; similar to WikiWikiWeb
   9. ClusterWiki — 1999; Bo Leuf; Perl; The Wiki Way CD; runs a cluster of wiki forums on a single wiki engine
   10. Kwiki aka KwikiKwiki — 19YY; BrianIngerson; Perl; ???;
       1. Socialtext — 199Y; ????????; Perl (?); ???;
   11. PikiPiki — 1999; Martin Pool; Python; first wiki made in Python, flat files, no versioning
       1. PikiePikie — 2000; Steve Pike; Python;
          1. MoinMoin — 2000; Jürgen Hermann; Python; web.de
   12. TipiWiki — 199Y; ????????; PHP;
       1. FatWiki — 199Y; ????????; ???;
       2. PeanutButterWiki, renamed PBwiki — 2005; David Weekly; PHP; PBwiki wiki farm; now known as PBworks, and hosting over one million (1,000,000+) wiki sites
       3. TipiWiki2 — 199Y; ????????; PHP;
   13. WakkaWiki aka Wakka — 2002; Carlos Zottman / Hendrik Mans; PHP;
       1. CS Wiki^[2] (formerly known as CityWiki) — 20YY; ????????; PHP;
       2. CoMaWiki — 200Y; Costal Martignier; PHP;
       3. CooCooWakka — 200Y; Ye Gu; PHP;
       4. UniWakka — 200Y; ????????; PHP;
       5. WackoWiki — 2003; Aleksey Kulakov; PHP; Russian only
       6. WikkaWakkaWiki aka WikkaWiki — 2004; Jason Tourtelotte; PHP;
       7. WikiNi — 200Y; ????????; PHP; French engine with English, Spanish, and Esperanto support
   14. PmWiki — 200Y; Patrick Michaud; PHP;
   15. Green Light Wiki — 200Y; Ben Kovitz; ???;
   16. JosWiki — 199Y; Markus Peter and Dave Harris; Java (?); Java Operating System
       1. KeheiWiki — 200Y; Bob Racko; ???;
       2. TWiki — 1998; Peter Thoeny; Perl; aimed at large corporate intranets, used plain text files instead of database
          1. Spinner Wiki — 2001; ????????; ???; (abandoned)
          2. O'Wiki — 2003; ????????; ???; (abandoned)
          3. Foswiki — 2008; Foswiki Forkers; Perl;
   17. Zwiki — 1999; Simon Michael; Python+Zope;
   18. XWiki — 2004; Ludovic Dubost; Java;
   19. PlikiWiki — 2005; John Morden; Perl;

External links

• Meatball:WikiFamilyTree — similar tree classification attempt
• Wiki:WikiEngines — at Portland Pattern Repository (PPR)
• History of wikis — at the English Wikipedia (En.Wp)
• File:Unix timeline.en.svg — diagram at Wikimedia Commons, showing Unix code inheritance tree; would be interesting to see wiki engines in this format.