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Single-user application of multi-user wikis

Most community wikis are designed for concurrent use by multiple users. However, most of these are installable for standalone use as well. This may require installing additional software, for example a web server, a database management system, or a WAMP/LAMP software bundle. Nevertheless, this does not mean the wiki must be accessible to outside users. Stand-alone is a confusing and misleading term, used to refer to various categories of computer programs, but rarely in a consistent fashion. ... The inside/front of a Dell PowerEdge web server The term Web server can mean one of two things: A computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as Web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are... A database management system (DBMS) is computer software designed for the purpose of managing databases. ... WAMP can refer to: A Microsoft Windows-based variant of a LAMP (software bundle). ... The acronym LAMP refers to a solution stack of software, usually free software / open-source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. ...

Some individuals use password protected wikis running either on their own webservers or hosted by third parties. This has the advantage that the personal space can be accessed from any web browser, at home, at work, on a PDA, at an internet cafe etc. Edits made on one machine are immediately accessible on the others. An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ... User with Treo (PDA with smartphone functionality) Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are handheld computers, but have become much more versatile over the years. ... It has been suggested that PC bang be merged into this article or section. ...

Multi-user wikis with personal editions

• MoinMoin has MoinMoin Desktop Edition - It is written in Python. It is for Windows, Linux and Mac users.

• TWiki has TWiki for Windows Personal and Certified TWiki - Written in Perl. Both support Windows users.

• ScrewTurn Wiki is written in C# and based on the ASP.NET 2.0 platform. It is for Windows users.

• DokuWiki works on plain text files and thus needs no database. Its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki and makes sure the data files remain readable outside the wiki. It's written in PHP and is multi-platform.

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Wikis designed for personal use

ZuluPad Screen Shot, showing links, images, and toolbar

There are also wikis specifically designed for personal use. Their feature set often differs from traditional wikis; examples are: Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

• Dynamic tree views of the wiki (These are useful because wikis built for personal usage are often small.)
• Drag and drop support for images, text and video, mathematics
• Use of OLE and Linkback to allow wikis to act as relational superstructures for multiple desktop type documents
• Multimedia embedding, in particular wiki can link to internal aspects of movies and sound tracks and stores notes / comments
• Macros and macros constructors. Also often support for alien macros so the wiki can act as a multi scripting macro system
• Built in sharing (a built in lite easy to configure server)
• Much faster handling

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Personal Wikis

Free

• bLADEWiki is a free personal wiki written in C#. It is actually composed of two distinct programs, one for Windows and the other for Windows mobile, with very robust synching between the two.
• DidiWiki is a free small and simple personal wiki written in C. (appears no longer active)
• Effort is a free online application with a wiki style.
• MoinMoin Desktop Edition is a browser-based wiki with a built-in server based on the python-powered MoinMoin original version.
• Nanoki is a small, full featured wiki engine implemented in Lua.
• Notebook is a freeware tcl/tk application. It runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Exports to HTML and MediaWiki markup.
• Pimki is a derivative of Instiki designed as a personal information manager.
• StickWiki is a free (GPL) single file, html based personal wiki system with support for IE, Firefox, and Opera
• TiddlyWiki is BSD license, single file, self-modifiying HTML + JavaScript based personal wiki
• Tomboy is a (LGPL) free software program for note-taking in a Wiki like manner. Simple editing and retrieval methods are provided. The program allows for easy organisation of any hierarchical data. Tomboy is stored in the GNOME CVS.

WikidPad Screen shot

• WikidPad is a free open-source, platform-independent standalone wiki notebook/outliner with many features, such as dynamic tree generation, topic tagging, auto-completion, full text searches, visual link tree, customizable interface, image and file control etc.
• WikiNotes is an open source personal wiki for OS X similar to VoodooPad.
• Zim is a (GPL) free software program intended as personal scratch book and note-taking application.
• ZuluPad ([1]) is a personal wiki designed for Windows and Mac OS X platforms.^[1] This product is available in both an opensource and a for-purchase version. Some features include automatic linking of wiki words, automatic linking of URLs, exporting of HTML files, and syncing files to a central server with web-access.

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Commercial

ConnectedText showing a treeview of the linking between pages

• ArtificialMemory is a Web-based personal semantic wiki system
• ConnectedText is a commercial Windows-based personal wiki system with many advanced features, including: full text searches, visual link tree, customizable interface, image and file control, CSS-based page display, exports to HTML and HTML Help, and plug-ins.
• LinkedNotes is a Windows .NET 2.0 implementation of a personal wiki. Basic page formatting and linking by page name is provided. The program will run from a USB flash drive. User authentication and encryption ensure private information is kept safe.
• Luminotes is a WYSIWYG personal wiki notebook for organizing thoughts and ideas. Both free and paid versions are available.
• PersonalBrain is a Java based associative database, where associated ideas are clustered in dynamic proximity, similar to ConnectedText (shown at left).
• RubberSquid is a commercial personal wiki designed for mobile phone and PDAs. It uses natural language processing to deliver focused page summaries as well as answer questions and relevance rank responses.

StoneNotes Screen shot

• StoneNotes is a Windows based personal wiki system. StoneNotes provides a free demo which is not time limited.
• VoodooPad essentially invented the modern personal/desktop wikis ^[2] and earned high praise early in its lifespan ^[3], designed for the Mac OS X platform. There is a free lite version.
• WhizFolders is a Windows based personal wiki system. Many ways to quickly insert links between notes is provided.
• WindowsWiki personal wiki for students and business travelers.

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See also

• Comparison of wiki software
• List of wiki software
• Outliner

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References

External links

• Comprehensive list of Personal Wikis on WikiWikiWeb