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Top 30 Wiki Tools and Resources

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Wikis, sites that can be collaboratively edited, are among the most popular tools for groups working together online. We’ve rounded up 30 of the best sites and resources – most of them free or low priced.

Hosted Wikis

PBwiki – create your personal wiki in less than 30 seconds with this easy online service. Special solutions for educational, business and personal use.

OttoWiki – build up your personal wiki to track projects or collaborate on documents online.

WikiSpaces – create simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together.

WetPaint – build up public and private wikis and join one of the largest wiki communities.

ServerSideWiki – create a web-hosted wiki specifically designed for extremely fast load times.

StikiPad – a hosted wiki solution that gives you an easy way to organize your information and share it with others.

Netcipia – create free private wikis and blogs and invite your coworkers, familiy and friends.

Ziwiki – build up a free wiki site and collaborate with a large community of users.

Near-Time – create and customize collaborative wikis for your business, customers and friends.

LittleWiki – set up free public and private wiki pages that anyone can edit.

TiddlySpot – get your wiki with no installation required and make it private or public.

ProjectForum – create hosted wikis to share, discuss and review ideas collaboratively (self hosted version available too)

Socialtext – build up a wiki in a few seconds. Different plans available for enterprises and smaller groups.

WikiBios – create a wiki page and edit your own biography. You will become part of a large social network.

Wiki – create free wikispaces of up to 5 members each with 25MB storage.

Wikidot – free and professional wiki publishing, collaboration and communication solutions.

Zoho Wiki – create free hosted group wikis and edit them collaboratively.

Wik.is – create public or private wikis and easily integrate them with your existing website.

JotSpot – popular wiki creation service that is momentarily suspended after having been acquired by Google.

Wikia – a community of users that create, share and discover topics they are passionate about through wikis.

EditMe – wiki hosting service that helps non-technical users to quickly and easily build editable web sites.

Versionate – create collaborative spaces where you can share information and review it with other people.

Self-Hosted/Open Source Wikis

ProjectForum – software to create wikis to share, discuss and review ideas collaboratively (hosted version available too).

Kwiki – wiki software with over 200 plugins that let you customize the look of your wiki.

XWiki – open source wiki released under the LGPL license

Twiki – enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system based on wikis.

OpenWiki – software that lets you create workspaces that can be collaboratively edited by anyone or by selected users.

MediaWiki – free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It’s available for everyone to use.

Confluence – enterprise wiki software that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge.

Wiki Search / Browsing Tools

Gollum – a fast and user friendly tool that lets you browse through Wikipedia.

Qwika – search articles in Wikipedia with this tool that bridges the language gaps.

Wikiseek – another interesting service that lets you search items within Wikipedia.

WikiWix – search engine specialized in searching content within Wikipedia. (via)

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