2009-11-17 06:50:08 +01:00
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When I started ikiwiki in 2006, there were no other existing systems that
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filled quite the niche of generating a static html wiki out of markdown
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files stored in a [[VCS|rcs]]. My
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[first blog about ikiwiki](http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/seeking_wiki/)
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looked at some projects that were semi-close, and found them wanting.
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2020-06-08 17:39:51 +02:00
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My hope was that besides being useful to all its [[users|ikiwikiusers]],
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2009-11-17 06:50:08 +01:00
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ikiwiki would help spread its underlying concepts. Let a thousand flowers
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bloom! These are some that have sprung up since. --[[Joey]]
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* [Gitit](http://gitit.johnmacfarlane.net/) is a wiki backed by a git (or
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darcs) filestore. No static rendering here; pages are generated on the fly.
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It's written in Haskell and uses the amazing PanDoc to generate html
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from markdown or many other formats.
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* [Markdoc](http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/post/246800035) statically builds
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a wiki from markdown source (which can be in a VCS, if you check it in).
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It includes a built-in webserver to ease serving the generated static
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html.
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