W
W is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Wikis & Knowledge Bases category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in PHP. It has 57 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 57
- Forks
- 7
- Open issues
- 133
- Commits, last 12 months
- 330
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v3.19.0Oct 6, 2026
- Created
- Mar 17, 2018
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 330 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases7 releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 330 |
| Latest release | v3.19.0 (Oct 6, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 7 |
| Releases, all time | 54 |
| Open issues | 133 |
| Open pull requests | 8 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Mar 17, 2018 |
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About W
Lightweight, mutli-user, flat-file-database Wiki engine. Create pages quickly and edit them in your Web browser using Mardown/HTML/CSS/JS. The main difference with other wiki is that you are….
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/vincent-peugnet/wcms.
Topics
- cms
- lightweight
- ideas
- link
- mindmap
- point-and-click
- interactive-fiction
- labyrinth
- markdown
- php
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Is W free and open source?
Yes. W is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run W with Docker?
W does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (PHP), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to W?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to W include SiYuan, Outline and Wiki.js.
Is W actively maintained?
The most recent commit to W was on Oct 25, 2026 with 330 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v3.19.0, published Oct 6, 2026. It had 133 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.