MediaWiki is the leading '''wiki software ''' worldwide. It is '''free''', and '''open source'''. MediaWiki is used by the [https://www.wikimedia.org/ WikiMedia Foundation] in all of it's projects for shared knowledge such as '''Wikipedia''', '''Wikibooks''', '''Wictionary''' etc.
The [[MediaWiki v Confluence]] article compares one of the biggest competitors in the enterprise market.
There are also newcomers like SaaS provider [https://clickup.com/ https://clickup.com] that fall more into provide a comprehensive 'project management suite of tools and integrated services. Most organizations - especially software vendors - have some combination of tools that they need to integrate to address basic needs. A typical example is the "edX" community which uses ReadTheDocs, Confluence wiki, JIRA tickets, Discourse, and collaborationdocuments in GitHub. == Not Wikis ==As versatile as MediaWiki software can be, it is not the right tool for all challenges. Some related endeavors such as the WMF' suite than generals initiative to provide educational or training instruction at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLearn use the "best of breed" free-purpose knowledge wikisoftware Learning Management System ('''LMS''') called [https://EdX.org edX] because that solution squarely fits the need. Another example is the amazing Discourse software for online forums. There are nice integrations so that your forums and wikis can get along.
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