WikkaWiki
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| Design by | Jason Tourtelotte |
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| Developed by | Wikka Development Team |
| Initial release | May 29, 2004 |
| Latest release | 1.1.6.6 / 2009-02-14 |
| Preview release | 1.1.7 (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 has been released under the GNU General Public License.
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[edit] 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. WikkaWiki has recently seen a substantial increase in development activity[1] thanks to its team of developers and community of contributors.
[edit] 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. The latest version 1.1.6.6 was released on February 14, 2009.[2] This release is a maintenance release that introduces several new features. According to Secunia, WikkaWiki does not suffer from any unpatched vulnerability as of the latest release.[3]
[edit] 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.
- CSS-defined printable view.
- Advanced tools for publishing page revisions, including:
- 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Documentation
A dedicated server provides extensive documentation and tutorials, targeted at different categories of users, from the end user to the developer.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Ohloh (2008-01-30). "WikkaWiki: Increasing year-over-year development activity". http://www.ohloh.net/projects/45/factoids/319042. Retrieved on 2008-01-30.
- ^ Wikka Developer Blog, Valentine release: WikkaWiki 1.1.6.6, http://blog.wikkawiki.org/2009/02/15/valentine-release-wikkawiki-1166/
- ^ Secunia. "Vulnerability report: WikkaWiki 1.x". http://secunia.com/advisories/product/6507/. Retrieved on 2009-02-14.
- ^ Wikka Documentation, http://docs.wikkawiki.org
[edit] External links
- WikkaWiki official website
- Wikka Developer Blog
- Wikka tracker and SVN repository
- What's new in Wikka latest release
- Wikka Documentation
- WikkaWiki at Ohloh
- FreeMind
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