This comparison of wiki hosting services or wiki farms is not comprehensive, it details only those 'notable' enough (in Wikipedia terms) to be included. A useful comprehensive comparison of wiki farms can be found on MediaWiki's site, at mw:Hosting services.
Online services which host wiki-style editable web pages. General characteristics of cost, presence of advertising, licensing are compared, as are technical differences in editing, features, wiki engine, multilingual support and syntax support.
This table compares general information for several of the more than 100 wiki hosting services that exist.[1]
All the mentioned services have WYSIWYG editing.
| Wiki hosting service | Founded | Cost | Ad supported | Content license | Subdomain | Custom themes | Database download / backup | Other Features | Base wiki engine | Language | Syntax support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confluence Hosted | 2004
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Non-free[a] | ? | No | ? | ? | Plugins, SSL, file storage, permissioning, WebDAV. | WYSIWYG Rich-text editor[2] script plugin No formulas | |||
| iMeet Central | 2005
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Non-free | ? | No | ? | ? | Access control, full-text search, calendaring, single sign-on to multiple projects, project templates, RSS enabled. | [?] (custom) | HTML,[1] CSS/templating No formulas | ||
| Ourproject.org | 2002
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Free | No[3] | Copyleft (choice of Creative Commons, GNU FDL, other licenses) | Yes | ? | ? | Mailing lists, FTP, SSH, ddbb, email alias, backups, CVS/SVN, forums, task management. | MoinMoin by default; custom supported | Supports English, Spanish, French, and many other languages. | |
| PBworks | 2005
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Non-free | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No page limits, SSL, RSS & Atom, email notifications, file management, page access settings. | [?] (custom) | All HTML,[1] JavaScript, LaTeX formulas | ||
| Fandom | 2004
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Free | Yes | Creative Commons | Yes, but not for multilingual wikis | Yes | Yes | Common login and common preferences to all wikis of FANDOM for the same user. Blog, User Page, and User Talk pages for users. | MediaWiki | All languages Wikipedia exists for (and some more); Community Support in English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French and several other languages.[citation needed] | Wikitext as used by MediaWiki, Some HTML,[1] JavaScript, Math formula, Lua |
This section is for hosts that were previously in the list above but no longer are up and running.