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Ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts a directory full of wiki pages
ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts a directory full of wiki pages
into html pages suitable for publishing on a website. Unlike a traditional
wiki, ikiwiki does not have its own means of storing page history, its own
markup language, or support for editing pages online. [[WhyIkiWiki]]
markup language, or support for editing pages online.
To use ikiwiki to set up a wiki, you will probably want to use it with a
revision control system, such as [[Subversion]], for keeping track of past
versions of pages. ikiwiki can run as a Subversion [[post-commit]] hook, so
that each committed change to your wiki is immediatly compiled and
published. (It can also be run by hand, by cron, or integrated with any
other revision control system.)
published.
See [[Features]] for a current list of ikiwiki's features. [[WhyIkiWiki]]
might be useful if you're considering using this.
[[Subversion]] also offers a way to let others edit pages on your wiki.
Just configure subversion to let appropriate users (or everyone) commit to
the wiki's repository. There are some things you should keep in mind about
[[Security]] when allowing the world to edit your ikiwiki.
ikiwiki supports pages using [[MarkDown]] as their markup language. Any
page with a filename ending in ".mdwn" is converted from markdown to html
by ikiwiki. Markdown understands text formatted as it would be in an email,
and is quite smart about converting it to html. The only additional markup
provided by ikiwiki aside from regular markdown is the [[WikiLink]].
ikiwiki also supports files of any other type, including raw html, text,
images, etc. These are not converted to wiki pages, they are just copied
unchanged by ikiwiki as it builds your wiki. So you can check in an image,