Wiki engine evolution tree

Template:TOCright WikiEngineTree — the tree in this article 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 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, 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programming language of the wiki engine; its relation to any existing wiki engines; project or community the engine was originally made for [if any]; notable and/or new features;

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

#[[:Category:Engine Name|Engine Name]] — year; author; prog lang; relation; 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, aka Ward's Wiki
   1. ThoughtsWeaver — ca. 1996; Jim Coplien; ???;
   2. CvWiki — 1997; PeterMerel; Perl; GreenCheese (?); WayBackMode
      1. TunesWiki — 19YY; ; ???;
      2. AtisWiki — 1998; MarcusDenker; Perl; ATIS/University of Karlsruhe; transclusion of Web pages
         1. UniToWiki — 19YY; Enrico Pasini; Perl; University of Turin
         2. UseMod Wiki — 1999; CliffordAdams; Perl; Usenet Moderation Project; subpages
            1. PurpleWiki — 19YY; ; Perl;
            2. ProWiki — 2000; HelmutLeitner; Perl; DseWiki, GründerWiki, TolkienWiki, Wiki4D, DorfWiki, OurCulture; fractality
            3. Oddmuse — 2001; Alex Schröder; Perl; EmacsWiki; subwikis [1]
               1. FsiWiki — 20YY; ; Perl??;
            4. WikkiTikkiTavi — 20YY; ; PHP; KeptPages
            5. Wiki::Toolkit — 2002; Kake Pugh; Perl;
               1. OpenGuides — 2002; Kake Pugh; Perl;
            6. MediaWiki — 2002; Magnus Manske; PHP; Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation; wiki namespaces
               1. GetWiki — ca. 2003; ; PHP; Wikinfo/ibiblio; importation of wiki pages
   3. CocoaDevWiki — 19YY; ; ???;
   4. Clublet — ca. 2000; RichardDrake; Perl; WhyClublet; sign-in
   5. Dinki — 20YY; ; Perl;
      1. QuikWiki — 20YY; ; ???;
   6. QuickiWiki — ca. 1999-2001; Ward Cunningham; Perl; The Wiki Way CD; similar to WikiWikiWeb
   7. ClusterWiki — 1999; Bo Leuf; Perl; The Wiki Way CD; runs a cluster of wiki forums on a single wiki engine
   8. Kwiki aka KwikiKwiki — 19YY; BrianIngerson; Perl; ;
      1. Socialtext — 19YY; ; Perl (?); ;
   9. PikiPiki — 1999; Martin Pool; Python;
      1. PikiePikie — 2000; Steve Pike; Python;
         1. MoinMoin — 2000; Jürgen Hermann; Python; web.de
   10. TipiWiki — 19YY; ; PHP;
       1. FatWiki — 19YY; ; ???;
       2. PeanutButterWiki aka Pbwiki — 19YY; David Weekly; PHP; PBWiki wiki farm
       3. TipiWiki2 — 19YY; ; PHP;
   11. WakkaWiki aka Wakka — 19YY; Carlos Zottman / Hendrik Mans; PHP;
       1. CoMaWiki — 19YY; Costal Martignier; PHP;
       2. CooCooWakka — 19YY; Ye Gu; PHP;
       3. UniWakka — 19YY; ; PHP;
       4. WackoWiki — 2003; Aleksey Kulakov; PHP;
       5. WikkaWakkaWiki aka WikkaWiki — 2004; Jason Tourtelotte; PHP;
       6. WikiNi — 20YY; ; PHP;
   12. PmWiki — 19YY; Patrick Michaud; PHP;
   13. Green Light Wiki — 19YY; Ben Kovitz; ???;
   14. JosWiki — 19YY; ; Java (?); Java Operating System
       1. KeheiWiki — 19YY; Bob Racko; ???;
       2. TWiki — 19YY; Peter Thoeny; Perl;
          1. Foswiki — 19YY; Foswiki Forkers; Perl;
   15. Zwiki — 1999; Simon Michael; Python+Zope;
   16. XWiki — 2003; Ludovic Dubost; Java;
   17. PlikiWiki — 2005; JohnMorden; Perl;

See also

• Meatball:WikiFamilyTree — similar tree classification attempt
• Wiki:WikiEngines at Portland Pattern Repository
• History of wikis — at the English Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Image:Unix.png — diagram showing unix code inheritance tree – would be interesting to see wiki engines in this format.