WikkaWiki

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WikkaWiki

Native mind map support in WikkaWiki
Original author(s) Jason Tourtelotte
Developer(s) Wikka Development Team
Initial release May 29, 2004 (2004-05-29)
Stable release 1.3.6 (December 24, 2014 (2014-12-24)) [±]
Preview release n/a (n/a) [±]
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Wiki
License GNU General Public License (code) and CC-BY-SA (documentation)
Website www.wikkawiki.org

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 is released under the GNU General Public License.

History

In 2003, the development of Wakka Wiki came abruptly to an end, although a large community of users and contributors were 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. It was the first wiki engine to introduce mindmapping support allowing users to collaboratively edit mindmaps via wiki pages,[1][2] a feature largely adopted by the majority of other wikis thereafter.

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. Wikka's backend is based on a MySQL relational database, which makes it fast, reliable and more scalable than wiki engines based on flat text storage.[3]

The latest version 1.3.6 was released on 24 December 2014.[4]

Wikka features

Among the distinctive features of this wiki engine:

  • RSS feeds for recent modifications and page revisions (with autodiscovery)
  • WikiPing client functionality, allowing page changes to be broadcast and tracked on a remote WikiPing server

Documentation

A dedicated server provides extensive documentation and tutorials, targeted at different categories of users, from the end user to the developer.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "WikkaWiki 1.1.5.0 release notes". 2004-09-02. Retrieved 2009-08-08.
  2. ↑ Armstrong, Sara (2008). Information Literacy: Navigating & Evaluating Today's Media. Shell Education. p. 232. ISBN 978-1425805548. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Wieduwilt, Frank (December 2006). "Quickie wikis: Lightweight wikis without databases" (PDF). Linux Magazine (73): 30–33. Retrieved 2009-09-03. Archived November 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Welcome to WikkaWiki". Wikka. Retrieved 2014-12-25.
  5. ↑ "Wikka Documentation". Docs.wikkawiki.org.

External links

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