Editing Wiki software (section)

=== Distributing and decentralizing ===

Wiki software can be [[Peer-to-peer|distributed]].<ref name="DavoustSkaf-Molli2015">{{cite journal|last1=Davoust|first1=Alan|last2=Skaf-Molli|first2=Hala|last3=Molli|first3=Pascal|last4=Esfandiari|first4=Babak|last5=Aslan|first5=Khaled|title=Distributed wikis: a survey|journal=Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience|volume=27|issue=11|year=2015|pages=2751–2777|issn=1532-0626|doi=10.1002/cpe.3439|s2cid=45142475|url=https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01100371/document}}</ref> XWiki is able to function in this way.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://concerto.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome|title=XWiki Concerto Project homepage|access-date=11 April 2017}}</ref> Smallest Federated Wiki promotes a federation of wiki servers,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fed.wiki.org|title=Welcome Visitors|access-date=11 April 2017}}</ref>

There has also been research done on allowing Wikipedia to be run as a [[Decentralized web|decentralized]] wiki.<ref>[http://www.globule.org/publi/DWECWH_webist2007.html A Decentralized Wiki Engine for Collaborative Wikipedia Hosting], Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre and Maarten van Steen, ''Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology (''[[Webist]]'')'', March 2007</ref><ref>[http://www.globule.org/publi/WWADH_comnet2009.html Wikipedia Workload Analysis for Decentralized Hosting], Guido Urdaneta, Guillaume Pierre, Maarten van Steen, ''Elsevier Computer Networks'' 53(11), pp. 1830–1845, July 2009</ref>