Open Source WiKi
By admin on Oct 14, 2010 in open source
DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files – no database is required.
Basic Features
- Simple syntax
- Unlimited page revisions
- Recent changes
- Colored side by side diff support
- Uploading and embedding of images and other media
- Customizable Interwiki links
- Optional CamelCase support
- Content can be categorized in namespaces, easily browsable through an automatic index
High Usability
- Section Editing allows editing of small parts of a page
- Toolbar and accesskeys make editing easy for both beginners and professionals
- Easy navigation through breadcrumbs
- Automatic table of contents generation
- Locking to avoid edit conflicts
Access Control and Anti-Spam Measures
- Simple support for read only pages
- Extended Access Control Lists
- Spam blacklist
- Delayed Indexing
- Mail address obfuscation and rel=nofollow support
International
- Support for over 50 languages
- Full UTF-8 support
- Romanization support for nicer URLs
- Optional automatic plural linking for English wikis
Fast
- Index-based fast fulltext search
- Pagecaching for quicker rendering
- Ajax-enhanced interface
Extensible
- Layout customizable through templates (over 70 already available)
- Features can be extended through plugins (over 600 already available)
- Great support from the community if you ever need help
Easy Integration
- No database required, uses plain text files
- Syndication of recent changes as RSS or ATOM feeds
- Authentication Backends for integrating with LDAP, MySQL, Postgres and others
- Open Source and well documented source code…
- and many more…
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