Version 56 of Wikit
Updated 2003-12-21 13:53:35
The name "Wikit" can be interpreted in two ways:
Both are accurate.
Wikit can be used in a number of ways
- as a CGI process (see Wikit under CGI), in which case it becomes a part of your web server - making collaborative editing possible
- it can be used standalone, running locally with a Tcl/Tk graphical front end (see Wikit in local mode) - providing includes a high-performance search facility and making it very easy to browse and edit information off-line.
- via its own embedded web server (see How to grow your own Wiki) - allowing you to run a web based wiki even on platforms without a web server - such as a Windows desktop!
- embedded in your application - providing a hyperlinked and searchable help system.
Wikit itself is fully self contained in a single platform-independent file, called a Starkit. It requires a platform-dependent runtime called Tclkit. The contents of the Wiki are contained in a single file Metakit database.
One useful application is to provide a local copy of the Tcl'ers Wiki - the contents of which can be downloaded from http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit.gz
You can't see the full size of the file until the download is done. In case you're wondering, wikit.gz has 5,640 Kb on July 14, 2003. And 6.5 Mb on December, 2003. And growing.
The wikit home page is http://www.equi4.com/wikit
Other pages on this wiki are:
- Wikit Command Line - how to look inside a Starkit
- Suggestions for Wikit - things that would be useful to add
- Wikit problems - things that ought to be fixed
- Wikit's performance - some notes on Wikit's efficiency
- Wikit configuration - describes all the CGI env-var options
- Searching and bookmarking URLs on the Tcl'ers Wiki - describes searching
- Formatting Rules - what can you do on a Wikit page?
- Embedding Images in the Wiki
- Adding images to local mode wikis
- Wikit is way cool
- How to grow your own Wiki
If you take a look at Category Wikit you will find all the pages on this site that have been categorized as related to the wikit concept in general. By taking a look at the Tcler's Wiki category, you will find the pages related directly to this wiki. If you find pages without the appropriate category link - please add it.
Robert Abitbol You will have to add a sort of diffs module. This is to inform the user of the changes between the last version and the new so that he/she does not have to read the whole page to see what has changed since the last version.
You also need a history page to compare any 2 versions of a page.
And a line to indicate a summary of your change.
+ the time of the save on your recent changes module.
Those 4 things are really basic wiki features and I am surprised they are all missing!
- LES says: see Wikidiff