Deki Wiki Installed Over 100,000 In First Year

September 25, 2007

Deki Wiki Installed Over 100,000 In First Year
Aaron Fulkerson @ 9:44 pm

This press release will hit the wire at 8 AM tomorrow. I suppose it’s not too premature to post now.

MindTouch Reaches Over 100000 - MindTouch
San Diego, Calif., Sept. 26, 2007 - MindTouch, the wiki platform company, today announced it has reached over 100,000 wiki installations since releasing Deki Wiki a year ago. Deki Wiki, an open source wiki and application platform, is now being installed over 500 times a day, making it the fastest-growing wiki software on the market.

MindTouch is seeing adoption accelerating by 50% each month and trending upward. Since launching in July 2006, Deki Wiki has added four languages (German, French, Portuguese, and Russian), over 100 new features, and received numerous awards and recognitions from reviewers and adopters alike, including endorsements from both Microsoft and Novell.

MindTouch credits its success to the quality of its platform and its thriving user community from around the world that keeps driving innovation.

Good times. Thanks for the downloads. Keep downloading and helping to spread the word. We’ll keep making the world’s best wiki even greater.

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Comments to “Deki Wiki Installed Over 100,000 In First Year”

heinz Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 10:39 am

From where did you get the number of installations? Only the download numbers? But downloading a software does not mean using it, or? Maybe the software was not even installed or de-installed soon because people didn’t like it… How do you know that other wiki engines don’t have better download numbers? How can you conclude that you are the fastest growing engine if you miss these numbers??

Aaron Fulkerson Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

Dear Heinz from Heinz@kechup.com,

Thanks for taking the time to ask this question. Allen, brought up this point when he posted here.

Allow me to shed some light on how we estimated the total number of installations.

* There have been just over 50,000 installations of hosted Deki Wikis on our site and two others that are hosted by partners.

* Downloads at Sourceforge are over 55,000 now with over 700 downloads each day. We only began tracking all our downloads at Sourceforge as of June. Prior to that we conservatively estimate we had 10,000 downloads.

* Not included in this estimate are SVN code repo check outs and several other sites like Download.com that have long offered downloads of Deki Wiki.

Finally, we made installing Deki Wiki super easy by packaging it up as a VMware certified image. So, installation takes just over 5 minutes (not counting download time). Check it out: http://mindtouch.com/Deki_Wiki

I have spoken personally with a lot of our users and I’m confident we’ve achieved 100k installs or I wouldn’t feel comfortable making this claim. For example, if you read the press release we made the claim that Deki Wiki is being downloaded 500 times a day. Actually if you look at just the Sourceforge.net stats you’ll see Deki Wiki is actually being downloaded over 700 times a day. We included a very conservative estimate in the announcement, we don’t want to over-hyping things.

As for other wikis, take a look for yourself. They almost all publish their numbers. Others that don’t I’ve spoken with personally. Some of these other wiki companies’ stats can even be viewed at Sourceforge.net.

Personally, I think the fact that our software, which is a pretty big download, is downloaded more than 700 times a day is pretty amazing. The barrier to entry in downloading a 230MB file is significantly greater than a 10 second registration form. Also, I personally speak with as many downloaders as possible. As I said before, I’m confident our estimate is conservative.

Again, thanks for taking the time to post and checking out MindTouch

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