This is the **ikiwiki** TourBus stop.

This wiki serves as the home for the ikiwiki wiki engine, providing collaborative development, documentation, and support.

[[ikiwiki|/index]] provides a wiki engine with several [[/features]] unique or uncommon amongst wiki engines:

* Rather than inventing yet another simplistic, linear version control system, ikiwiki uses a standard version control system such as [[Subversion|rcs/svn]] or [[rcs/Git]].  You can edit a wiki by committing to your repository, as well as through a traditional web interface.  This makes ikiwiki ideal for collaborative software development; just keep your wiki in version control next to your software.  You can also take full advantage of the features of these systems; for instance, you can keep a local branch of your wiki via [[rcs/Git]].

* You can turn any set of pages into a [[blog]] or similar news feed,
* complete with RSS and Atom support.  You can run your weblog on ikiwiki (and [[many_people_do|ikiwikiusers]]), run a Planet-like [[aggregator|plugins/aggregate]] for external feeds, or keep a [[TODO]] and [[bug|bugs]] list with tags for completed items.

* ikiwiki provides a wiki compiler, designed to transform your wiki content into a set of static pages.  You can then serve these pages as static content.  ikiwiki will not fall over during a Slashdotting, because page views don't require the ikiwiki CGI; as long as your web server can keep up, your [site](http://dessouse.net) will survive.  Furthermore, you can choose whether you want to run the ikiwiki CGI for web edits or only handle commits to the underlying version control system; you can even run ikiwiki privately and just manually copy the content to another server.  So if you want to put a wiki up on a server without installing any software on that server, try ikiwiki.

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Famous sights to visit here at **ikiwiki**
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* [[features]]: See what ikiwiki can do, and why you might choose it for your wiki.
* [[ikiwikiusers]]: The list of projects, personal sites, and blogs that use ikiwiki.
* [[plugins]]: See the many ways people have extended ikiwiki.
* [[examples]]: Example sites built using ikiwiki.