WakkaWiki
Encyclopedia
WakkaWiki is a very small wiki engine
written in PHP
that is easy to install, hack, and maintain. It was originally developed by Hendrik Mans, creator of the PlanetCrap
discussion community, with help from Carlo Zottmann.
As of September 29, 2004, its website was taken down and the project was stopped, although a large community of contributors still actively posted bugfixes, extensions, and new functionality. WakkaWiki saw most of its contributors migrate to one of its forks
.
The focus of WakkaWiki was on simple and therefore extensible code. Thanks to the simplicity of its design, it spawned several forks, sharing the same ancestry but pursuing their own vision. Many of these forks include scripts to upgrade from previous WakkaWiki installations. WakkaWiki has spawned at least five forks: CitiWiki, UniWakka, WackoWiki
, WikiNi, and WikkaWiki
.
Wiki software
Wiki software is collaborative software that runs a wiki, i.e., a website that allows users to create and collaboratively edit web pages via a web browser. A wiki system is usually a web application that runs on one or more web servers...
written in PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
that is easy to install, hack, and maintain. It was originally developed by Hendrik Mans, creator of the PlanetCrap
PlanetCrap
PlanetCrap is a Web discussion forum created by , known as Morn. It is ostensibly concerned with discussing computer games, although its content varies almost as much as the Internet itself. Growing out of the Unreal community, it has always remained slightly less reputable than its peers...
discussion community, with help from Carlo Zottmann.
As of September 29, 2004, its website was taken down and the project was stopped, although a large community of contributors still actively posted bugfixes, extensions, and new functionality. WakkaWiki saw most of its contributors migrate to one of its forks
Fork (software development)
In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a legal copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software...
.
The focus of WakkaWiki was on simple and therefore extensible code. Thanks to the simplicity of its design, it spawned several forks, sharing the same ancestry but pursuing their own vision. Many of these forks include scripts to upgrade from previous WakkaWiki installations. WakkaWiki has spawned at least five forks: CitiWiki, UniWakka, WackoWiki
WackoWiki
WackoWiki is a small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual Wiki-engine based on Wakka Wiki written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. WackoWiki has an with support for multiple languages, easy installer, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache...
, WikiNi, and WikkaWiki
WikkaWiki
WikkaWiki is a free, lightweight, and standards-compliant wiki engine. Written in PHP, it uses MySQL to store pages. WikkaWiki is a fork of Wakka Wiki to which a number of new features have been added...
.