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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.

==SaaS alternatives==Digital.com does a comparison of wiki software and SaaS options https://digital.com/best-web-hosting/applications/wiki/  There are also newcomers like [that provide a comprehensive suite of tools and integrated services centered around "getting stuff done". * '''Clickup''' https://clickup.com * '''Monday.com''' https://Monday.com * '''NotionHQ''' which is offering integrated AI. https://www.notion.so/* '''Outline''' https://www.getoutline.com/ * '''Airtable''' https://clickupwww.airtable.comis perhaps a case-study for what is needed in terms of a complete product definition and service offering for [[MediaWiki/Marketing]]  When you think of Enterprise software for basic operations, most organizations - especially software vendors - use some combination of tools that fall they need to integrate to address those basic needs. A typical example is the "edX" community which uses ReadTheDocs, Confluence wiki, JIRA tickets, Discourse, and documents in GitHub. These needs are illustrated in products that go back 20 or more into a comprehensive years like Redmine or [https://trac.edgewall.org/ Trac]. ==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's initiative to provide educational or training instruction at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLearn use the "best of breed" free-software Learning Management System ('''LMS'''project management ) 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 collaboration' suite than general-purpose knowledge wikiwikis can get along.