Both are web based applications\/software designed to allow many people to contribute content (typically articles … but podcast and videos are becoming more common) to a website.<\/p>\n
I would say the basic difference is that a CMS (Ex: Drupal) is a closed system where only certain people can add or edit content to the website\/cms.<\/p>\n
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On the other hand, a wiki is an open system where anyone can edit and add content. The idea behind a wiki is that the masses will eventually correct any false information – with the help of editors.<\/p>\n
My thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m no wiki expert, but I see wiki’s being more suitable to general encyclopedic information. If you need a tighter structure and control over what is being posted on your site, I would be leaning towards a CMS rather than a WIKI.<\/p>\n That said, I am sure that the differences between the two types of software has room for a lot of gray area – I’m sure some CMS software have WIKI like functionality and vice versa.<\/p>\n How about blogs?<\/strong><\/p>\n Blogs are kinda like a CMS for one person. One other distinction would be that the blog traditionally is date driven – where newer articles are posted to the front page of the blog. As with the WIKI\/CMS blurring of the lines, you see the same with blogs and CMS software.<\/p>\n For example: WordPress (a popular blog program) has CMS like features:<\/p>\n Beyond the CMS-like features built into the core WordPress package, WordPress has a huge number of plug-ins out there that extend it’s capability considerably … bringing it even closer inline with a true CMS.<\/p>\n A few links:<\/strong><\/p>\n WordPress home page: www.wordpress.org<\/a> Ciao,<\/p>\n Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n www.killersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the difference between a CMS (content management system) and a Wiki? In a nutshell: Both are web based applications\/software designed to allow many people to contribute content (typically articles … but podcast and videos are becoming more common) to a website. I would say the basic difference is that a CMS (Ex: Drupal) … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35,34],"tags":[36,29,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4310,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nDrupal home page: http:\/\/drupal.org<\/a>
\nAnother popular CMS – Joomla: joomla.org<\/a>
\nWiki software: Media Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n