1 Some of ikiwiki's features:
5 Rather than implement its own system for storing page histories etc,
6 ikiwiki simply uses subversion. (It's also possible to [[plugins/write]] support for other systems.)
8 Instead of editing pages in a stupid web form, you can use vim and commit
9 changes via svn. Or work disconnected using svk and push your changes out
12 ikiwiki can be run from a [[post-commit]] hook to update your wiki
13 immediately whenever you commit.
15 Note that ikiwiki does not require subversion to function. If you want to
16 run a simple wiki without page history, it can do that too.
20 ikiwiki supports pages using [[MarkDown]] as their markup language. Any
21 page with a filename ending in ".mdwn" is converted from markdown to html
22 by ikiwiki. Markdown understands text formatted as it would be in an email,
23 and is quite smart about converting it to html. The only additional markup
24 provided by ikiwiki aside from regular markdown is the [[WikiLink]] and
25 [[PreprocessorDirective]]
27 * support for other file types
29 ikiwiki also supports files of any other type, including plain text,
30 images, etc. These are not converted to wiki pages, they are just copied
31 unchanged by ikiwiki as it builds your wiki. So you can check in an image,
32 program, or other special file and link to it from your wiki pages.
36 Arbitrarily deep hierarchies of pages with fairly simple and useful [[SubPage/LinkingRules]]
40 You can turn any page in the wiki into a [[blog]]. Pages with names
41 matching a specified [[GlobList]] will be displayed as a weblog within
42 the blog page. And an RSS feed can be generated to follow the blog.
44 Ikiwiki's own [[TODO]], [[news]], and [[plugins]] pages are good examples of some of
45 the flexible ways that this can be used.
49 ikiwiki is fast and smart about updating a wiki, it only builds pages
50 that have changed (and tracks things like creation of new pages and links
51 that can indirectly cause a page to need a rebuild)
55 ikiwiki aims to produce
56 [valid XHTML 1.0](http://validator.w3.org/check?url=referer).
57 ikiwiki generates html using [[templates]], and uses css, so you can
58 change the look and layout of all pages in any way you would like.
62 Automatically included on pages. Rather faster than eg MoinMoin and
63 always there to help with navigation.
67 Well, sorta. Rather than implementing YA history browser, it can link to
68 [[ViewCVS]] or the link to browse the history of a wiki page.
70 * [[RecentChanges]], editing pages in a web browser
72 Nearly the definition of a wiki, although perhaps ikiwiki challenges how
73 much of that web gunk a wiki really needs. These features are optional
74 and can be enabled by enabling [[CGI]].
78 Can optionally be configured to allow only registered users to post
79 pages; online user registration form, etc.
83 Thanks to subpages, every page can easily and automatically have a
84 /Discussion subpage. By default, these links are included in the
85 [[templates]] for each page.
87 * Smart merging and conflict resolution in your web browser
89 Since it uses subversion, ikiwiki takes advantage of its smart merging to
90 avoid any conflicts when two people edit different parts of the same page
91 at the same time. No annoying warnings about other editors, or locking,
92 etc, instead the other person's changes will be automatically merged with
93 yours when you commit.
95 In the rare cases where automatic merging fails due to the same part of a
96 page being concurrently edited, regular subversion commit markers are
97 shown in the file to resolve the conflict, so if you're already familiar
98 with that there's no new commit marker syntax to learn.
100 For all the gory details of how ikiwiki handles this behind the scenes,
101 see [[commit-internals]].
105 Wiki admins can lock pages so that only other admins can edit them.
109 ikiwiki can use the [[HyperEstraier]] search engine to add powerful
110 full text search capabilities to your wiki.
114 ikiwiki can be configured to send you commit mails with diffs of changes
119 Plugins can be used to add additional features to ikiwiki. The interface is quite flexible, allowing plugins to register [[PreProcessorDirective]]s, hook into [[CGI]] mode, and more. Ikiwiki's backend RCS support is also pluggable, so support for new revision control systems can be added to ikiwiki.
123 It also has some [[TODO]] items and [[Bugs]].