WikklyText A wikitext server and rendering library
What is WikklyText?
- It provides a lightweight, portable, extensible wiki language, compatible with TiddlyWiki
(see also: MarkupReference). - It is easily used as a WikiOnAStick for keeping a personal wiki.
- It can be used BehindApache to serve a multiuser wiki.
- It can be plugged into Drupal allowing you to write in WikklyText markup on your existing Drupal site.
- It provides "Safe" and "Full" modes: In "Safe" mode, the user is restricted to only calling safe macros, no HTML injection is possible, and the generated text is filtered to preclude XSS issues. In a server setting (e.g. Drupal or Apache) this allows untrusted users to write WikklyText content without endangering system security.
- It is extensible, allowing both embedded Python code in wikitexts (<?py ... ?>) as well as providing an easy to use plugin API.
- It is a modular Python library that you can use to build your own wikitext rendering applications. You can render to both HTML and XML for flexibility.
- It is provided under a free license.
You might be interested in reading the RecentChanges.
Version 1.9.3-TEST released. This is prerelease software, meant to let everyone have a preview of the new server frontend code. Please make a backup and test using that. See PreRelease for details and downloads.
Version 1.9.2-TEST released. This is prerelease software, meant to let everyone have a preview of the new server frontend code. Please make a backup and test using that. See PreRelease for details and downloads.
Version 1.9.1-TEST released. This is prerelease software, meant to let everyone have a preview of the new server frontend code. Please make a backup and test using that. See PreRelease for details and downloads.
Version 1.9.0-TEST goes live. Well, it turned out that moving to a new server did not eliminate the random lockups after all — they were just as bad as before. I came to the conclusion that the problem was in WikklyText itself, so I finally undertook a major refactoring of the wiki frontend I've been planning putting off for a long time. The test code is now live here and (crossing fingers) has not locked up once yet. If you run a wiki and are interested in checking out the new code prior to the 2.0 release, I encourage you to follow the MailingList as I'll be making further announcements there.
Wikklytext has moved to a new server. Hopefully this will eliminate the twice-daily reboots I was having to do with the old server. The new server seems snappier on first impression, keeping my fingers crossed ...
This release adds a new type of macro that takes a WSGI environment as an argument. You can also attach arbitrary WSGI applications to the wiki now.
WikklyText 1.5.0 is released. This is somewhat of a cleanup release with reorganization of the caching architecture, parsing cleanups and XHTML compliance fixes.
Added GettingPlugins page to collect plugins.
December 18, 2009
Version 1.9.3-TEST released. This is prerelease software, meant to let everyone have a preview of the new server frontend code. Please make a backup and test using that. See PreRelease for details and downloads.
October 11, 2009
Version 1.9.2-TEST released. This is prerelease software, meant to let everyone have a preview of the new server frontend code. Please make a backup and test using that. See PreRelease for details and downloads.
September 26, 2009
Version 1.9.1-TEST released. This is prerelease software, meant to let everyone have a preview of the new server frontend code. Please make a backup and test using that. See PreRelease for details and downloads.
September 18, 2009
Version 1.9.0-TEST goes live. Well, it turned out that moving to a new server did not eliminate the random lockups after all — they were just as bad as before. I came to the conclusion that the problem was in WikklyText itself, so I finally undertook a major refactoring of the wiki frontend I've been planning putting off for a long time. The test code is now live here and (crossing fingers) has not locked up once yet. If you run a wiki and are interested in checking out the new code prior to the 2.0 release, I encourage you to follow the MailingList as I'll be making further announcements there.
August 24, 2009
Wikklytext has moved to a new server. Hopefully this will eliminate the twice-daily reboots I was having to do with the old server. The new server seems snappier on first impression, keeping my fingers crossed ...
August 16, 2009
This release adds a new type of macro that takes a WSGI environment as an argument. You can also attach arbitrary WSGI applications to the wiki now.
September 28, 2008
WikklyText 1.5.0 is released. This is somewhat of a cleanup release with reorganization of the caching architecture, parsing cleanups and XHTML compliance fixes.
September 6, 2008
Added GettingPlugins page to collect plugins.
- If you want to try it out without installing Python, and you are running Windows, WikExeWin32 is a quick way to get started.
- Otherwise, install the Python package.
- To use with Drupal, get the DrupalPlugIn.
Some starting points for using WikklyText.
- UsingWik
- Use the wik standalone tool to create, manage, render and serve full blown wikis.
Unless you are a programmer, this is probably what you want to use! - MarkupReference
- A complete reference to the WikklyText markup language
For programmers
- WikklyTextApi
- Documents the primary entry points.
Other/older tools
- wikkly2html
- Renders a single text file at a time.
- twextract
- Tool for converting a TiddlyWiki to standalone HTML (superceded by wik).
There is a mailing list for WikklyText users and developers. Please post support questions there so everyone may benefit from the answers. Security-related announcements will be posted there as well, so if you are running a public WikklyText site, you may want to subscribe to the list.
The list is hosted at Google Groups: WikklyText Mailing list
You can also post comments on many pages here (for longer questions/issues, though, please use the mailing lists).
The list is hosted at Google Groups: WikklyText Mailing list
You can also post comments on many pages here (for longer questions/issues, though, please use the mailing lists).
The site you are viewing is a WikklyText wiki. If you are familiar with TiddlyWiki you'll notice that WikklyText wikis use the same naming scheme. This is done so that you can move content freely between a TiddlyWiki and a WikklyText wiki. (See the wik conv command in UsingWik.)
Much of the time, this site will be running a prerelease version of WikklyText. Don't be surprised to see a version number (on the link at the bottom) that is not yet available for download. All features will be included in the next stable release.
Much of the time, this site will be running a prerelease version of WikklyText. Don't be surprised to see a version number (on the link at the bottom) that is not yet available for download. All features will be included in the next stable release.