I want to start a wiki and I want help on which software to select.
Basically it?s going to be like wikipedia but focused in one specific topic.


My ?special? needs  are :
1.	Flexible design (excuse me but I have a issue with the wikipedia
design ? too serious.)
2.	Ability to contain Google adsense.
3.	Search engine optimization friendly.
4.	Solid and stable.
5.	Free
6.	A reliable group or company ? I don?t want a software that will
dissaper in one year?

Also it needs to have the common features.
Those are the questions I have in my mind feel free to add any comment.

I am familiar with those sites:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TopTenWikiEngines
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/04/which_wiki.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1401107,00.asp

Please visit http://www.technosofthosting.com/,They have many such
systems preinstalled in their server. The interesting thing is they
offer these services for free..

xwiki is the best i've run across, java based, easy to get up and
going and robust features.

What is wrong with mediawiki? All you have to do is edit the skin and
you can do whatever you want with it. You can put ads in it, and
whatever else you like.
just edit ./skins/Monobook.php

I have been quite satisfied with MoinMoin
(http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/), a free software Wiki written in
Python. It is simple, because it depends only on Python. It has its
own webserver, or you can run it inside Apache, either as a CGI or
with mod_python. It has good versioning and multiuser abilities.

Markup is reasonably wiki-ish (but you know there is really no
standard), and with the new 1.5 version there is a WYSISWYG editor. To
try it out, you can download and install the Desktop edition, which is
ready to start as soon as you download it - no need to install
anything else.

Design is flexible 'enough' for me. I don't know about AdSense, though.