WikkaWiki
Native mind map support in WikkaWiki | |
Original author(s) | Jason Tourtelotte |
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Developer(s) | Wikka Development Team |
Initial release | May 29, 2004 |
Stable release | 1.3.6 (December 24, 2014 ) [±] |
Preview release | n/a (n/a) [±] |
Written in | PHP |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Wiki |
License | GNU General Public License (code) and CC-BY-SA (documentation) |
Website |
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WikkaWiki (often shortened as Wikka) is a free, lightweight, and standards-compliant wiki engine. Written in PHP, it uses MySQL to store pages. WikkaWiki is a fork of Wakka Wiki to which a number of new features have been added. It is designed for speed, fine-grained access control, extensibility, and security, and is released under the GNU General Public License.
History
In 2003, the development of Wakka Wiki came abruptly to an end, although a large community of users and contributors were still posting bugfixes, extensions, and new functions. First released in May 2004 by Jason Tourtelotte, WikkaWiki rapidly grew into a project aiming to remain faithful to Wakka's heritage of a lightweight engine with readable and accessible code. It was the first wiki engine to introduce mindmapping support allowing users to collaboratively edit mindmaps via wiki pages,[1][2] a feature largely adopted by the majority of other wikis thereafter.
Wikka vision
Compared to heavier wiki engines, which integrate several built-in functions, WikkaWiki's goal is to keep its core as small as possible while developing an architecture that supports easy extensibility through plugin modules. Wikka's backend is based on a MySQL relational database, which makes it fast, reliable and more scalable than wiki engines based on flat text storage.[3]
The latest version 1.3.6 was released on 24 December 2014.[4]
Wikka features
Among the distinctive features of this wiki engine:
- Support for different types of embedded elements:
- Advanced access control with user registration, password management, and provision for user profiles, as well as access control lists on a per-page basis.
- Administration modules to manage pages and users, including tools for bulk operations like user removal or page reversion.
- Advanced syntax highlighting using GeSHi:
- support for 68 markup/programming languages
- easily customizable output
- line numbering
- clickable markup pointers to official documentation
- on-the-fly downloading of embedded code blocks
- Several page-related features, including full revision control, comments, categories, text searching, page cloning, advanced referrer management, file uploading/downloading interface, and a GUI page editor.
- W3C compliant XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS.
- Theme support
- CSS-defined printable view.
- Advanced tools for publishing page revisions, including:
- RSS feeds for recent modifications and page revisions (with autodiscovery)
- WikiPing client functionality, allowing page changes to be broadcast and tracked on a remote WikiPing server
- SmartTitle function, generating human- and search-engine-friendly page titles.
- A web-based wizard to install the package and to upgrade from WakkaWiki.
- A large repository of user-contributed plugins.
- A table of contents generator that creates a linked list of headings on a page, useful for navigating very long pages.
Documentation
A dedicated server provides extensive documentation and tutorials, targeted at different categories of users, from the end user to the developer.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "WikkaWiki 1.1.5.0 release notes". 2004-09-02. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
- ↑ Armstrong, Sara (2008). Information Literacy: Navigating & Evaluating Today's Media. Shell Education. p. 232. ISBN 978-1425805548. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
- ↑ Wieduwilt, Frank (December 2006). "Quickie wikis: Lightweight wikis without databases" (PDF). Linux Magazine (73): 30–33. Retrieved 2009-09-03. Archived November 20, 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Welcome to WikkaWiki". Wikka. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
- ↑ "Wikka Documentation". Docs.wikkawiki.org.
External links
- Official website
- Git repository
- Wikka Developer Blog
- Wikka issues tracker
- What's new in Wikka latest release
- Wikka Documentation
- WikkaWiki at Ohloh
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