Crowi

Crowi is a wiki-style knowledge management platform designed to support collaborative documentation and information sharing within organizations and communities. It aims to provide a simple authoring experience, fast search, and structured content organization to help teams build and maintain internal knowledge bases, project documentation, and knowledge repositories.

Its core capabilities include page creation and editing with lightweight markup, inter-page linking, and a hierarchical content structure. Crowi emphasizes searchability with full-text indexing and supports page versioning to track changes over time. Access control and user management facilitate collaboration while preserving privacy and security. Optional features often include attachments and media embedding, activity feeds, and basic commenting to support discussion around content.

Crowi is released as an open-source project and is typically deployed on self-hosted infrastructure. The software provides a web-based interface and can be customized or extended to suit organizational policies, with a focus on portability and community-driven development.

Since its release, Crowi has been adopted by software teams, communities, and knowledge bases seeking a lightweight, self-hosted alternative to commercial wiki solutions. The project has an active community of contributors who publish plugins, themes, and documentation to extend its functionality.