Lizzy

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Wiki engine description

French

Lizzy (autrefois connu comme YAWC: "encore un autre clone wiki") est un outil simple et léger permettant à des utilisateurs non techniciens de créer collaborativement et maintenir des sites web. Lizzy est fondé sur l'approche wiki développée par Ward Cunningham. Il est en train d'évoluer conjointement aver le Conseil national de recherches du Canada (CNRC) (National Research Council of Canada) par les Membres de l'Equipe Lizzy.

English

Lizzy (formerly known as YAWC, or Yet Another Wiki Clone) is a simple, lightweight tool allowing non-technical users to collaboratively create and maintain web sites. Lizzy is based on the wiki approach developped by Ward Cunningham. It is being jointly evolved at the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada by the Lizzy Team Members.

For a detailed view of wiki, we recommend the excellent book The Wiki Way by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham.

The main characteristics that distinguish Lizzy from other wiki engine clones are:

• Focus on usability by non-technical users (including primary school children)
• Supports easy creation and maintenance of bilingual pages (i.e. pages that have a French and English version)

Lizzy implements a series of improvements over the original Cunningham implementation of wiki, including:

• Bilingual support (English and French)
  • All dialogs can be displayed in either French or English
  • Link names may contain French characters
  • Simple functionality to help in creating and maintaining bilingual pages (i.e. pages that have a version in French and English)
  • See: working with multilingual sites
• Easier link management
  • Lenient link syntax (ex: some_page, SomePage, somePage and SOME_PAGE are all valid way of creating a link and they all point to the same page)
  • Renaming a page automatically changes all references to it
  • Can delete pages through the wiki interface
  • See: Wiki Word, Rename a Page Image or Attachment and Delete a Page Image or Attachment
• Better management of images and attachments
  • Images and attachments (ex: MS Word documents) can easily be uploaded to the server directly through the wiki interface
  • Links to attachments can be inserted anywhere in a page, not just at the bottom
  • See Add an Image or Attachment to a Page, Change The Size Of An Image and Change Content Of Image Or Attachment
• Revision Control of pages, images and attachments
  • Can easily view previous versions of a page, image or attachment, and return to an earlier version
  • See: Viewing and Restoring Previous Versions of a Page and Viewing and Restoring Previous Versions of an Image or Attachment
• Creation of new pages based on predefined template pages
  • Encourages more uniform look and feel of pages on the site
  • See: Create A New Page
• Support of multiple wiki sites under a common code base
  • Can also point from one site to another without entering full URL
  • See: Linking To Other Lizzy Sites On Same Server
• Several options configurable through configuration files
  • See: Lizzy Site Creation and Lizzy Site Customisation
• Extended markup language that retains the simplicity of the original wiki markup language; extensions include
  • comments that only appear at editing time
  • can override the anchor text of a link
  • HTML style table markup
  • markup for pointing so special places like the home page or the search screen
  • inline images and document attachments (e.g. MS Word documents)
  • See: Wiki Markup Language
• Better control over security
  • You can leave your site completely open, or control access to different types of actions (ex: viewing, editing, uploading) independently
  • See Access Control
• Fully regression tested.