PHP Wiki

Open-source PHP projects categorized as Wiki

Top 8 PHP Wiki Projects

  1. BookStack

    A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel

    Project mention: PHP 8.5 gets released today, here's what's new | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-19

    > My favourite PHP product at the moment is BookStack (https://www.bookstackapp.com/), a really good wiki.

    Another wiki that uses php is Wikipedia.

    People like to shit on php but it powers some of the largest sites in the world.

    At the end of the day, programming language doesn't matter much. You can be a good programmer in any language and a bad programmer in any language.

  2. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  3. Mediawiki

    🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.

  4. Dokuwiki

    The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine

  5. Pepperminty Wiki

    A wiki in a box

  6. PineDocs

    A fast and lightweight site for viewing files

  7. WackoWiki

    WackoWiki is a light and handy Wiki-engine.

  8. tlb

    Federated wiki for personal use & small teams. Track your project & hobbies.

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  10. NatureVault

    Saving the Worlds Knowledge. After Sept 27 2023 will be moved to Bitbucket or similar github alternative, see readme

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

PHP Wiki discussion

PHP Wiki related posts

  • BookStack: Simple and Free Wiki Software

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2024
  • Ask HN: Which "open-source alternatives" have succeeded?

    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jul 2024
  • Dokuwiki VS WackoWiki - a user suggested alternative

    2 projects | 21 Jun 2024
  • What wiki platforms are you using and how is it structured?

    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 11 Dec 2023
  • Solution de documentation local ?

    1 project | /r/Sysadmin_Fr | 24 Nov 2023
  • Revision numbers?

    1 project | /r/BookStack | 12 Oct 2023
  • I am tired of creating documents in WORD. Looking for suggestions

    1 project | /r/ITManagers | 10 Jul 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Wiki projects in PHP? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 BookStack 17,878
2 Mediawiki 4,864
3 Dokuwiki 4,489
4 Pepperminty Wiki 204
5 PineDocs 144
6 WackoWiki 54
7 tlb 3
8 NatureVault 0

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