WikkaWiki
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| Original author(s) | Jason Tourtelotte |
| Developer(s) | Wikka Development Team |
| Initial release | 29, 2004 |
| Stable release | 1.2 / September 1, 2009 |
| Preview release | 1.3 (unstable) / nightly |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Wiki |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://wikkawiki.org |
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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 was 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. WikkaWiki has recently seen a substantial increase in development activity[3] thanks to its team of developers and community of contributors.
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.[4]
The latest version 1.2 was released on September 1, 2009.[5] This release is a major feature release introducing substantial new functionality. According to Secunia, WikkaWiki does not suffer from any unpatched vulnerability as of the latest release.[6]
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.
Development
Forthcoming releases may include:
- Enhanced configurability (e.g., user selectable/editable skins and menus).
- Dynamically-generated API documentation.
- API for syndicating content from remote wikis.
- Google Maps support.
- Plugin architecture for modularization
Documentation
A dedicated server provides extensive documentation and tutorials, targeted at different categories of users, from the end user to the developer.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ "WikkaWiki 1.1.5.0 release notes". 2004-09-02. http://docs.wikkawiki.org/WikkaReleaseNotes1150. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
- ↑ Armstrong, Sara (2008). Information Literacy: Navigating & Evaluating Today's Media. Shell Education. pp. 99. ISBN 1425805548. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WvWeB7E2bN8C. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
- ↑ Ohloh (2008-01-30). "WikkaWiki: Increasing year-over-year development activity". http://www.ohloh.net/projects/45/factoids/319042. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
- ↑ Wieduwilt, Frank (December 2006). "Quickie wikis: Lightweight wikis without databases" (PDF). Linux Magazine (73): 30–33. http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/73/Leightweight_Wikis.pdfe.com/. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
- ↑ Wikka Developer Blog, Wikka 1.2 release: Theme support and advanced table markup, http://blog.wikkawiki.org/2009/09/02/wikka-1-2-release-theme-support-and-advanced-table-markup/
- ↑ Secunia. "Vulnerability report: WikkaWiki 1.x". http://secunia.com/advisories/product/6507/. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
- ↑ Wikka Documentation, http://docs.wikkawiki.org
External links
- WikkaWiki official website
- Wikka Developer Blog
- Wikka tracker and SVN repository
- What's new in Wikka latest release
- Wikka Documentation
- Template:Ohloh project
- FreeMind
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