Wiki Engine Popularity

The following GoogleSearch hit count result list may give insight into the popularity and spread of the various WikiWikiClones.

Although the raw search result numbers may not be an absolute measure of popularity, they can be used to rank relative popularity. The list is cut off at around 50 entries and some frivoulous entries (InternetExplorer, WikiWord, ...) were removed (maybe I've cut out some real WikiEngines as well).

Also see TopTenWikiEngines for a short list of the best WikiEngines based on more subjective opinions.

Another survey done for the WikiCreole workshop at WikiSym August 14, 2006: http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/WikiPopularity

For comparison, Google yields 12,700,000 for "wiki" and 359,000 for "wikiwiki". Unknown how many of those are purely use of the Hawaiian word.

MediaWiki

76,900000 (2008.7.25)

TWiki (TwikiClone)

4,410,000 (2008.7.25)

TikiWiki

4,190,000 (2008.7.25)

PukiWiki

4,180,000 (2009.7.25)

MojoMojo

3,640,000 (2009-01-22)

I cannot replicate this, I get a value of 770,000 which contains in the top two pages items which are not related to MojoMojo e.g. duplicate use of mojo in a directory structure. -- JohnFletcher

DotNetNuke

2800000 (2008.7.25) - this is web content management (message board) which has embeded wiki (broken in current version?)

1820000 (2008.7.25)

1200000 (2008.7.25)

1080000 (2008.7.25)

1070000 (2008.7.25) - "moinmoin" may be common wording, but I'd say MoinMoin is that popular anyhow

XWiki (XwikiWiki)

766000 (2008.7.25)

JspWiki

1180000 (2006.1.1)

SnipSnap

1010000 (2006.1.1) - "snipsnap" is also sounding enough that this value is inexact

615000 (2006.1.1)

500000 (2006.1.1)

360000 (2006.1.1)

275000 (2006.1.1)

149000 (2006.1.1)

113000 (2006.1.1)

89000 (2006.1.1)

23600

20300

19000

17200

16700

16000

15600

15400

15300

WiKid?

14500

WiLiKi

14200

TeleparkWiki:13900 (2007.2.27)

MiLki: 12400
MoshiMoshi: 12100
PurpleWiki: 12000
PodWiki: 10800
WikkiTikkiTavi: 8530
ProjectForum: 8330
TipiWiki: 7460
Yawiki: 6890
WikiClone: 6460
SushiWiki: 5960
PyWiki: 5920
WikLeet: 5820
PikiPiki: 4970
QwikiWiki: 4050
DevWiki: 3880
ProWiki: 3870
XikiProject: 3760
VikiWiki: 3660
DolphinWikiWeb: 3470
MiniWiki: 3440
ComSwiki: 2850
OddMuse: 2720
StrikiWiki: 2490
CitiWiki: 2360
JavaWiki: 2070

disqualified entry due to count being distorted beyond recognition:

TiKi

2,400,000 - obviously counted wrong ("TiKi" is too short, it's also in "TikiWiki" and other names)

81,700 for "tiki cms" (this might be more realistic)
1680 for "Riki Tiki Tavi" (incorrect spelling)
15,300 for Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (correct spelling from Kipling*** 238,000 for "tiki tiki"
89,000 for "kon tiki"
18,600 for "tiki room"
15,900 for "tiki hut"
20,000 for tiki luau
2,290 "tiki luau"
248 for "ku tiki" (not very many, but an interesting one)
? for "tiki" - scientific software gui frontend (sourceforge)

this is the silly shell script for generating the above list (almost):

#!/bin/sh
wget -c http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines -O /dev/stdout | perl -ne 'if (m/<a href="wiki\?(\w+)/) { print "$1\n"; }' > wiki.lst
for ENGINE in `cat wiki.lst`
do
COUNT=$(
 wget -U "WikiEngineCounting?/1.0" -c "http://www.google.com/search?q=$ENGINE" -O /dev/stdout | perl -ne 'if (m/(von ungefähr|of about)\s+<b>([\d,.]+)/ms) { print "$2"; exit; }'
)
echo ";$ENGINE:$COUNT" >> wiki.count
done
cat wiki.count | tr -d ,. | sort -n -r -t : -k 2 | uniq > wiki.sorted

As mentioned, it needs some post editing, because not every link on the WikiEngines page is in fact a name of a WikiClone.

If you search for "wiki" on http://sourceforge.net, you will get a list ranked by activity.

Sadly not all WikiEngines are developed at SourceForge, otherwise this also was another very interesting measurement method for WikiEnginePopularity.

''However, 9 of the top ten Wikis identified by Google are hosted on SourceForge:

(approximate "downloads" per day of "pageviews" per day - july 31, 2004)

TikiWiki -- 300 of 900
MediaWiki -- 200 of 700
MoinMoin -- 75 of 400
PukiWiki -- not on sourceforge
SnipSnap -- 3 of 50
Twiki -- 0 of 2000 (???)
TeleparkWiki -- 50 of 1000
PhpWiki -- 75 of 400
PmWiki -- 0 of 150 (???)
ZWiki -- 0 of 3
DotNetNuke -- 0 of 1500 (???)

random picks from further down the google list:

QwikiWiki -- 20 of 60
DolphinWikiWeb -- not on sourceforge
SpinnerWiki -- 1 of 50
MiniWiki -- not on sourceforge
OddMuseWiki -- not on sourceforge

(There seems to be some general similarity between this list and the Google search ranking... I did this more-or-less manually, but perhaps it would be possible to use a similar type of script to rank WikiEngines on SourceForge)

A script would definitely be cool (it was even better if sourceforge simply did export all such stats as XML). And I guess the zero download entries come from the fact, that while PmWiki and others have a project entry on sourceforge, they are in fact developed (sometimes not really open) and provided for download somewhere else.

Hmm fetching statistics from http://freshmeat.net could be interesting, too.

for wiki's popularity infomation in Chinese area, please refer http://www.allwiki.com/index.php/Wiki%E5%BC%95%E6%93%8E%E7%9A%84%E6%B5%81%E8%A1%8C%E5%BA%A6 (In GB-2312)

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