Other wiki engines used regularly for public wikis include MoinMoin and PmWiki, along with many others.

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The PmWiki wiki markup shares similarities with MediaWiki ( used by Wikipedia ).

PmWiki supports " attachments " ( uploads: images or other files ) to its wiki pages.

By default, PmWiki allows exactly one hierarchical level of the pages (" WikiGroup / WikiPage "), but through recipes, it is possible to have a flat structure ( no wiki groups ), multiple nested groups, or sub-pages.

Special wiki groups are " PmWiki ", Site, SiteAdmin and Category which contain the documentation and some configuration templates.

PmWiki offers a template scheme that makes it possible to change the look and feel of the wiki or website with a high degree of flexibility in both functionality and appearance.

PmWiki can use passwords from config files, special wiki pages,. htpasswd /. htgroup files.

Prerequisites for running the PmWiki wiki engine:

PmWiki is designed to be able to store and retrieve the pages ' text and metadata on various systems and formats.

PmWiki permits users and administrators to establish password protection for individual pages, groups of pages or the entire site.

There are PmWiki recipes allowing an easier management of the uploaded files, e. g. deletion or thumbnail / gallery creation.

Users avoid pasting in entire URLs ( as they would for regular web pages ) and instead use a shorthand similar to links within the same wiki ( intrawiki links ).

Since most wiki systems use URLs for individual pages where the page's title appears at the end of an otherwise unchanging address, the simplest way of defining such mappings is by substituting the interwiki prefix for the unchanging part of the URL.

Wiki software ( also known as a wiki engine or wiki application ) is collaborative software that runs a wiki, i. e., a website that allows users to create and collaboratively edit web pages via a web browser.

Conversely, only the wiki users interested in a given project need look at its associated wiki pages, in contrast to high-traffic mailing lists which may burden subscribers with many messages, regardless of their relevance.

All of these can either be stored via versioned wiki pages, or simply be a separate piece of functionality.

Some wiki applications let users embed scripting-style calls into wiki pages, which are processed by the wiki's parser and run either when the page is saved or when it is displayed.

Wiki spam is a form of link spam on wiki pages.

While wikis may use HTML-type hyperlinks, lightweight markup languages of wikis ( wiki markup ) provide simplified syntax, called wikilinks for linking pages within wiki environments.

* Internal wikilinks or intrawiki links lead to pages within the same wiki website.

* Shareaza Links to Shareaza project and related or interesting pages in Shareaza wiki

Links to pages on another wiki ( including other Wikimedia Foundation sites ) are coloured differently from links within the English Wikipedia.

The uploads can be attached to a group of pages ( default ), individually to each page, or to the whole wiki, depending on the content needs and structure.

The out-of-the box installation uses " shared passwords " rather than login names, but a built-in option can enable a sophisticated user / group based access control system on pages, groups of pages or the whole wiki.

Over time, for example, wiki user pages have become social portals for individual users and may be used in place of other portal applications.

Sites such as MeatballWiki and the UseModWiki site contain comprehensive lists which are often used for this purpose-the former being publicly editable in the same way as any other wiki page, and the latter being verified as usable but potentially out of date.

The most famous among these are the wiki ( the Hawaiian word for " quick ") and many ideas in the field of software design patterns.

There are currently dozens of actively maintained wiki engines, in a variety of programming languages, including both open source and proprietary applications.

There are essentially three types of usage for wiki software: public-facing wikis with a potentially large community of readers and editors, private enterprise wikis for data management by corporations and other organizations, and personal wikis, meant to be used by a single person to manage notes, and usually run on a desktop.

There are a variety of wiki hosting services, otherwise known as wiki farms, that host users ' wikis on a server.

Some wiki software is only available in hosted form: PBworks, Wetpaint and Wikispaces are all examples of wiki hosting services that run on code that is only available on those sites.

With this approach, there is no central store of the wiki's content ; instead, every user keeps a complete copy of the wiki locally, and the software handles merging and propagating of changes when they are made.

Also included ( particularly in later versions ) are numerous additional services and the tools to manage them, such as web server, wiki server, chat server, calendar server, and many others.

Since early 2011 EDD parties are working together on the Participedia wiki

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For instance, as new NetWare service packs are released the NetWare wiki is updated with tips and known issues with the service packs.

The project aims to research corporations using wiki technology and global South / North collaboration and is built on an open content model ; all contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Share Alike and also under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Pages are stored in ASCII format and may be edited directly by the wiki administrator.

In an on-going recent project the library was also made available in an experimental wiki form that only admits edits when they are approved by the Mizar checker.

Specifically, the manuals and other content at MediaWiki. org are Creative Commons-licensed, while the set of help pages intended to be freely copied into fresh wiki installations and / or distributed with MediaWiki software is public domain.

There are several wiki engines that have implemented Creole.