Wiki Service

WikiService offers public and private wikis (German and English):

http://www.prowiki.com/prowiki/wiki.cgi (English support)
http://www.wikiservice.at/support/wiki.cgi (German support)
http://www.wikiservice.at

English examples:

http://www.thetolkienwiki.org (an open online community about Tolkiens literary work)
http://www.wikiservice.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi (a software developers community)
http://www.prowiki.org/user/milk/wiki.cgi (a personal wiki)

The wikis run with the ProWikiEngine. Pricing is $15-$150/month depending on type and size. Note that this is all-inclusive with support and maintenance. If you do comparisons, look for: free individual layout, tables and other layout extensions, full text search, full page history, RSS stream, full configuration of wiki branches (subwiki), and (soon to come, ETA Jul 04) Wiki2RTF conversion. Full text export (admin only) enables you to switch to a different provider anytime - we constantly work hard that you will not want to.

New developments become available to all wikis automatically and without charge. There is no upgrading policy. Prices are projected to fall about 5-15% per year (10% Dec 03). We aim at providing reliable and stable project frameworks for successful individual wiki projects, not at mass production.

There are FreeWikisForSchools. Wikis in public interest (or for non-profit organizations) may be given free or at reduced prices.

Is this cheap? or expensive? you can run an AspWiki on any ASP hosting service - for free.

This is cheap if you really want to start a wiki. You get a full-featured Wiki, free access to seeding pages, a maintained WikiEngine that is updated every few days, lots of extensions you can choose from, direct contact to the software development to discuss problem and future requirements, and help with all wiki related problems. For <10% of your total cost of ownership you can increase your success probability from 10% up to 95%.

Wikis are 30% technical and 70% social phenomena. While we try to provide the best possible wiki server, and push the limits wherever we can, and think that this is important - we know that social elements are equally important to the success of wikis. The necessary know-how is available from MeatballWiki (English) and GründerWiki (German) or by consulting us (free) and we are constantly working to increase our system knowledge and the general exchange of wiki and online community experiences.

-- HelmutLeitner