Remko Tronçon's Homepage 2011-12-30T17:00:29+01:00 http://el-tramo.be/ Remko Tronçon http://el-tramo.be/about/ Remko Tronçon http://el-tramo.be/about/ 2008-07-21T00:00:00+02:00 http://el-tramo.be/blog/wigit-intro For a while now, I've been looking for a simple wiki to manage my personal notes and to do some basic shared editing. After looking through the vast number of wikis on <a href="http://www.wikimatrix.org/">WikiMatrix</a> and still not finding what I was looking for, I ended up doing what hundreds have done before me: wrote <a href="http://el-tramo.be/software/wigit">my own wiki</a>, and threw it on the pile of exitsing ones. <!--more-->Up until recently, I've been using <a href="http://tipiwiki.sourceforge.net">TipiWiki</a> as my notebook, which is very light, simple, and easy to deploy. However, recently started running into its limitations, including limited markup possibilities (e.g. no multi-level lists), the lack of decent history (seeing who changed what, when), ... I liked the idea of <a href="http://atonie.org/2008/02/git-wiki">git-wiki</a>, which used <a href="http://git.or.cz">Git</a> as its backend, giving it good history support, and the fact that all documents are in a real repository. However, git-wiki uses <a href="http://sinatra.rubyforge.org/">Sinatra</a>, which requires way too much valuable resources than I want to spend on a simple wiki. So, I took the idea of using Git as a backend, threw in the <a href="http://textile.thresholdstate.com/">Textile</a> PHP class for marking up text, and wrote <a href="http://el-tramo.be/software/wigit">WiGit</a>: a simple, themable wiki in PHP (which is less cool, but also less heavy than Ruby/Sinatra), built upon Git, with history support, basic user support (from HTTP authentication), and pretty URLs. The default theme is still rough, and there are still a bunch of features coming up, but it should function properly already as a simple wiki for your everyday needs.