Wiki software

A wiki engine is a software family of content management systems to achieve wikis.

Basic features

None of these features is necessarily present in a wiki engine, but these features are directly related to the wiki principle.

• Possibility for each person, without exception, to create and edit each page;

• Whether or not to be identified;

• Obligation or not to be identified in order to edit a page;

• History management pages, limited in time or full since the establishment of the page;

• Ability to include or not HTML code in pages;

• More or less rich syntax of language associated with the motor.

Advanced features

In addition to these features, wiki engines can implement or not advanced features, approaching classical portals.

• Plugins management;

• Calendar management;

• Forums management;

• Photo albums management;

• Discussion area management;

• Information management;

• Content syndication between different wikis.