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  • Xwiki is missing.

    For me after a similar search it is the current winner. Even though it has it’d downsides. We came from Confluence and tested a LOT of systems. My spreadsheet of systems we considered has around 120 rows by now. (Not all pure wikis as we also moved away from jira and considered going down a “put the wiki into the servicedesk” route)

    Pro:

    • It is well tested in a enterprise enviromentand mighty

    • It has all the features I personally found important for a company wiki, e.g. approval, versioning, templates, collaboration, integration api,etc.

    • It is fairly easy to extend it yourself

    • It is easy to host subwikis within the same installation with a self defined grade of independence - which is great for customer facing things,large projects with externals,etc.

    • The development community is big and enterprise focus and release cycles are good. (Not like a certain .js) There is very little chance it will stall suddenly as the wiki has been adopted by a lot of large companies which seem to support it.

    • It’s truely free,no “pay to get custom fields” bullshit.

    • It’s truely self hosted.

    • it can be hosted system side, if you are not into docker.

    Contra:

    • It is written in bloody Java

    • (even though this sentence is redundant with the one above) It is a resource hog

    • The look and feel is a bit outdated unless you customise it yourself. Then it is reasonably good.But there are basically no paid templates,etc.

    • Paid support is only available through third parties it seems.

    • It can be, well, slow to update…like physically slow. It is not hard to update,not at all…press a few buttons…but sometimes it takes ages.