Category:Ikiwiki

ikiwiki is a wiki compiler, a , particularly suited to personal wikis, project wikis, or blogs. ikiwiki is, released as  () under the (GPL v2+). ikiwiki converts wiki pages into html pages suitable for publishing on a website. Unlike most other wiki engines, ikiwiki stores pages and history as plain text files in a standard  system such as  or , rather than some specialised internal page history format.

The with ikiwiki is that it can be edited via commit to a repository, in addition to the standard web editing (though web editing can also be disabled); which makes ikiwiki truly collaborative. It is even possible to run an ikiwiki site in private, by copying the wiki content onto another server; and you even do not need the ikiwiki software on that server!

The ikiwiki wiki engine is written in  by Joey Hess (and others), and there is a plugin available that supports , along with other plugins to support other common wiki syntaxes. ikiwiki supports using Git, Subversion, <Mercurial ></Mercurial>, <Monotone ></Monotone>, <darcs ></darcs>, or <CVS ></CVS> version control systems. ikiwiki can also be used to build <weblog ></weblog>s.

ikiwiki will run on ANY operating system. Whilst it supports nigh-on all of the established syntax and protocols (some such as CamelCase requiring additional plugins), it does not support localisation, its interface being available in only.

Their 'meta' website (also named ikiwiki) is a wiki, running the ikiwiki wiki engine, demonstrating and discussing the ikiwiki wiki engine.

Originally found at <tt>http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net</tt>, the main ikiwiki website subsequently moved to <tt>https://ikiwiki.info</tt>.


 * ''External links


 * why ikiwiki — at ikiwiki.info
 * ikiwiki features — at ikiwiki.info
 * ikiwiki plugins — at ikiwiki.info
 * ikiwiki users — at ikiwiki.info
 * Joey Hess — personal website of the creator, at joeyh.name