Softwarefabrica Django Wiki

About this document

This document provides an overview of what Softwarefabrica Django Wiki is.

Contents

What is this?

This is a flexible wiki application for the Django web framework.

This is meant to be used as a component in developing full-fledged wiki applications, but it also provides a fully working stand-alone application.

Your help and feedback is precious. Suggestions and contributions are very much appreciated. See below on how you can contribute.

If you want to actively collaborate and provide code, documentation, tests or bug fixes, please feel free to create a new Bazaar branch in Launchpad, and tell us about it! See the collaboration section for more information.

Feature overview

Wiki features:

  • simple
  • fast
  • standard markup, based on Markdown
  • attachment support
  • ergonomic
  • automatically creates backups of all page changes (full history)
  • multiple wikis
  • hierarchycal wikis
  • hierarchycal pages
  • unicode support
  • remote wiki synchronization support (you can work on your wikis on mobile, disconnected, devices)
  • structured documents support, with links for previous, next and upper pages
  • easy access to linked and linking pages
  • fast search functionality
  • download of pages in text and HTML formats
  • easily embeddable in other Django applications
  • TWiki import tool
  • fully working complete demo application included

Upcoming features:

  • PDF generation
  • RSS feed for recent changes
  • page templates
  • download of a whole wiki in HTML
  • advanced ACL support

Pre-requisites and installation

See the installation guide document.

How can I contribute?

As said, your help is precious. We'll warmly appreciate any help you'll want to give. Just using this library is a reward for us, but if you want to become more actively involved, you are welcome!

The project has a development home page at LaunchPad:

https://launchpad.net/sf-django-wiki

There you can file bugs, suggest enhancements, follow development or ask to become an active team member.

You can checkout the development branch using Bazaar:

bzr branch lp:sf-django-wiki

We'll appreciate very much if you'll want to contribute back any changes. Just register your branch with LaunchPad and tell us!

Source code can also be browsed online.

Contacts

It's possible to contact the author by e-mail at the following addresses:

m.pantaleoni at softwarefabrica.org

panta at elasticworld.org

marco.pantaleoni at gmail.com

LICENSE

This software is covered by the GNU General Public License version 2. If you want to use this software in a closed source application, you need to buy a commercial license from the author.

This open source version is:

Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Marco Pantaleoni. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.