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I am looking for a wiki engine that is:

  • open source
  • real time
  • collaborative

A sort of mix between MediaWiki and an open source version of Google Docs where several users could see each other's edits in real time.

Is there such a state-of-the-art beast?

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Jerome WAGNER
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    Seems like you need a gobby-plugin for mediawiki... I was looking for something like that a while ago, but never found anything. – orithena Apr 13 '10 at 14:31
  • I will also note, that this is arguably not programming related unless you're talking about writing it :) – cgp Apr 13 '10 at 15:01
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    For sure I'd prefer to find a good existing code base. It seems like a huge undertaking even though projects like pygowave may help ! – Jerome WAGNER Apr 13 '10 at 22:28
  • FWIW, Kune website at www.kune.cc has a "wiki" based on Google Wave. You can setup your own node for the kune platform. It also has a simultaneous chat like etherpadlite. Not sure about the "Engine" part or "real-time" editing support though. – GuruM Nov 25 '12 at 05:10
  • This may be worth a look: Howto Build a hybrid Etherpad+Docuwiki: http://canidu.com/etherwiki-howto.html – GuruM Nov 25 '12 at 05:21
  • "The EtherpadLite extension adds a tag to the MediaWiki parser and provides a method to embed Etherpad Lite pads on MediaWiki pages" See [EtherPadLite Extension](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherpadLite) – GuruM Nov 25 '12 at 05:36

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Etherpad-Lite with linkify plugin is the closest thing that you can find:

https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite

The linkify plugin can be installed by simply typing:

npm install ep_linkify

once you have Etherpad-Lite installed.

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You may also want to check out this experimental extension to MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherEditor

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Haven't seen one, but you may be able to build off of Sobby/Gobby in order to create one.

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EtherPad

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I'm trying to find a similar solution for non-profit and NGO organizations and small friend groups.
Something which combines
a) one-to-group of Facebook or Google+,
b) document creation of TiddlyWiki and
c) simultaneous editing of EtherpadLite

I've found Kune to be among the better implemented candidates as one of it's main design goals is ease-of-use for small groups, communities and non-profits.
Zero system administration as hosting is free.
Ease of customization via Wave Gadgets. While still in alpha stage it looks good.

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  • [Woobius](http://woobius.com) implements a replacement for building documents via email-threads for (free for individuals and $$ for small to medium businesses) – GuruM Nov 25 '12 at 05:21
  • Integration discussions for [Tiddlywiki](http://tiddlywiki.com) and [EtherPadLite](https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite): a) https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/etherpad-open-source-discuss/r1XQ2ZEPueA b) https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/tiddlywiki/4l9TPFiix4M – GuruM Nov 25 '12 at 05:22
  • FWIW, [Kune](www.kune.cc) has a "wiki" based on Google Wave. You can setup your own node for the kune platform. It also has a simultaneous chat like etherpadlite. Not sure about the "Engine" part or "real-time" editing support though. – GuruM Nov 25 '12 at 05:47
  • This may be worth a look: [Howto Build a hybrid Etherpad+Docuwiki](http://canidu.com/etherwiki-howto.html) – GuruM Nov 25 '12 at 05:48
  • "The EtherpadLite extension adds a tag to the MediaWiki parser and provides a method to embed Etherpad Lite pads on MediaWiki pages" See [EtherPadLite Extension](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherpadLite) – GuruM Nov 25 '12 at 05:48
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I think you've answered this primarily - Google Wave or Google Docs are the big players here, though there's lots of others.

From a wiki perspective, most wiki's are written with the expectation of relatively non-granular changes (larger chunks than is typically found in collaboration). It may not be out there, and just waiting for someone like you to write it ;)

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Maybe try PmWiki or PukiWiki?

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    admittedly, I did not look into PmWiki for a while, but I never saw anything like that on it ... what feature exactly do you mean? All I found was http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/SimultaneousEdits and that's missing the real-time point... – orithena Apr 13 '10 at 14:35
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Atlassian's Confluence now ticks say two and half of these boxes. It has real-time collaborative editing - it's commercial though, but you can look at the source if you sign an NDA with them

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