Wiki engine evolution tree: Difference between revisions

'''WikiEngineTree''' — the tree in this [[article]] below shows roughly how various {{tag|Wiki Engine|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 [[:Category:Wiki Age|origins]]; where the original [[Developer|programmer]] (or [[founder]]) of the wiki engine got the idea of deriving (or [[fork]]ing) a new wiki engine.  In other words: this is supposed to be a tree of the evolution of wiki engines (not {{tag|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.

Please try to list information in the following order (bold items are strongly preferred):

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engine; its relation to any existing wiki engines; '''[[:Category:Wiki Topic|project]]''' or community the engine was originally made for [if any]; notable and / or new features;

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

#'''<big><mark>[[:Category:WikiWikiWeb|WikiWikiWeb]]</mark></big>''' — 1994; [[Ward Cunningham]]; Perl; [[Portland Pattern Repository]] / patterns community; '''first wiki <u>site</u>''', ''aka'' '''Ward's Wiki'''; the actual wiki software would subsequently be released as 'Wiki Base'

##[[:Category:ThoughtsWeaver|ThoughtsWeaver]] — ca. 1996; [[Jim Coplien]]; ???;

##[[:Category:CvWiki|CvWiki]] — 1997; [[Peter Merel]]; Perl; [[GreenCheese]] (?); WayBackMode

###[[:Category:TunesWiki|TunesWiki]] — 199Y; ????????; ???;

###[[:Category:AtisWiki|AtisWiki]] — 1998; [[Marcus Denker]]; Perl; ATIS / University of Karlsruhe; transclusion of web pages

####[[:Category:UniToWiki|UniToWiki]] — 199Y; [[Enrico Pasini]]; Perl; University of Turin

####[[:Category:UseMod Wiki|UseMod Wiki]] — 1999; [[CliffordAdams]]; Perl; Usenet Moderation Project; sub-pages

#####[[:Category:ProWiki|ProWiki]] — 2000; [[HelmutLeitner]]; Perl; [[DseWiki]], [[GründerWiki]], [[TolkienWiki]], [[Wiki4D]], [[DorfWiki]], [[OurCulture]]; fractality

#####[[:Category:Oddmuse|Oddmuse]] — 2001; [[Alex Schröder]]; Perl; [[EmacsWiki]]; sub-wikis [http://www.Oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/What_Is_Oddmuse]

######[[:Category:FsiWiki|FsiWiki]] — 200Y; ????????; Perl??;

#####[[:Category:WikkiTikkiTavi|WikkiTikkiTavi]] — 2000; [[Scott Moonen|Scott C. Moonen]]; PHP; [[KeptPages]]

#####[[:Category:Wiki::Toolkit|Wiki::Toolkit]] — 2002; [[User talk:KakePugh|Kake Pugh]]; Perl;

######[[:Category:OpenGuides|OpenGuides]] — 2002; [[User talk:KakePugh|Kake Pugh]]; Perl; [[:Category:Cities|city wikis]]

#####[[:Category:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]] — 2002; [[Magnus Manske]]; PHP; [[:Category:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]], [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]]; wiki namespaces

######[[:Category:GetWiki|GetWiki]] — ca. 2003; ????????; PHP; [[Wikinfo]] / [[ibiblio]]; importation of wiki pages

#####[[:Category:PurpleWiki|PurpleWiki]] — 2003; ????????; Perl; purple numbers

##[[JWiki]] — 1997; [[Ricardo Clements]]; Java; first wiki compiled in Java and first to use a database

##[[:Category:PhpWiki|PhpWiki]] — 1999; [[SourceForge:u/wainstead/profile/|Steve Wainstead]]; PHP;

##[[:Category:CocoaDevWiki|CocoaDevWiki]] — 199Y; ????????; ???;

##[[:Category:Clublet|Clublet]] — ca. 2000; [[RichardDrake]]; Perl; [[WhyClublet]]; sign-in

##[[:Category:Dinki|Dinki]] — 200Y; ????????; Perl;

###[[:Category:QuikWiki|QuikWiki]] — 200Y; ????????; ???;

##[[QuickiWiki]] — ca. 1999-2001; [[Ward Cunningham]]; Perl; ''[[The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web|The Wiki Way]]'' CD; similar to WikiWikiWeb

##[[:Category:ClusterWiki|ClusterWiki]] — 1999; [[Bo Leuf]]; Perl; ''[[The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web|The Wiki Way]]'' CD; runs a cluster of wiki forums on a single wiki engine

##[[:Category:Kwiki|Kwiki]] aka [[:Category:KwikiKwiki|KwikiKwiki]] — 19YY; [[BrianIngerson]]; Perl; ???;

###[[:Category:Socialtext|Socialtext]] — 199Y; ????????; Perl (?); ???;

##[[:Category:PikiPiki|PikiPiki]] — 1999; [[Martin Pool]]; Python; first wiki made in Python, flat files, no versioning

###[[:Category:PikiePikie|PikiePikie]] — 2000; [[Steve Pike]]; Python;

####[[:Category:MoinMoin|MoinMoin]] — 2000; [[Jürgen Hermann]]; Python; [[web.de]]

##[[:Category:TipiWiki|TipiWiki]] — 199Y; ????????; PHP;

###[[:Category:FatWiki|FatWiki]] — 199Y; ????????; ???;

###PeanutButterWiki, renamed [[:Category:PBwiki|PBwiki]] — 2005; [[David Weekly]]; PHP; PBwiki [[wiki farm]]; now known as PBworks, and hosting over one million (1,000,000+) wiki sites

###[[:Category:TipiWiki2|TipiWiki2]] — 199Y; ????????; PHP;

##[[:Category:WakkaWiki|WakkaWiki]] aka Wakka — 2002; [[Carlos Zottman]] / [[Hendrik Mans]]; PHP;

###[[:Category:CS Wiki|CS Wiki]]^{[http://wiki.cs.cityu.edu.hk/CsWiki]} (formerly known as CityWiki) — 20YY; ????????; PHP;

###[[:Category:CoMaWiki|CoMaWiki]] — 200Y; [[Costal Martignier]]; PHP;

###[[:Category:CooCooWakka|CooCooWakka]] — 200Y; [[Ye Gu]]; PHP;

###[[:Category:UniWakka|UniWakka]] — 200Y; ????????; PHP;

###[[:Category:WackoWiki|WackoWiki]] — 2003; [[Aleksey Kulakov]]; PHP; Russian only

###[[:Category:WikkaWakkaWiki|WikkaWakkaWiki]] aka [[:Category:WikkaWiki|WikkaWiki]] — 2004; [[Jason Tourtelotte]]; PHP;

###[[:Category:WikiNi|WikiNi]] — 200Y; ????????; PHP; French engine with English, Spanish, and Esperanto support

##[[:Category:PmWiki|PmWiki]] — 200Y; [[Patrick Michaud]]; PHP;

##[[:Category:Green Light Wiki|Green Light Wiki]] — 200Y; [[Ben Kovitz]]; ???;

##[[JosWiki]] — 199Y; Markus Peter and Dave Harris; [[:Category:Java|Java]] (?); Java Operating System

###[[:Category:KeheiWiki|KeheiWiki]] — 200Y; [[Bob Racko]]; ???;

###[[:Category:TWiki|TWiki]] — 1998; [[Peter Thoeny]]; Perl; aimed at large corporate intranets, used plain text files instead of database

####[[Spinner Wiki]] — 2001; ????????; ???; (abandoned)

####[[O'Wiki]] — 2003; ????????; ???; (abandoned)

####[[:Category:Foswiki|Foswiki]] — 2008; [[Foswiki Forkers]]; Perl;

##[[:Category:Zwiki|Zwiki]] — 1999; [[Simon Michael]]; Python+Zope;

##[[:Category:XWiki|XWiki]] — 2004; [[Ludovic Dubost]]; Java;

##[[PlikiWiki]] — 2005; [[User:Jdm1979uk|John Morden]]; Perl;