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WiGit: A Simple Git-based Wiki

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 WikiMatrix and still not finding what I was looking for, I ended up doing what hundreds have done before me: wrote my own wiki, and threw it on the pile of exitsing ones.

Up until recently, I’ve been using TipiWiki 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 git-wiki, which used Git as its backend, giving it good history support, and the fact that all documents are in a real repository. However, git-wiki uses Sinatra, 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 Textile PHP class for marking up text, and wrote WiGit: 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.

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4 Responses to “WiGit: A Simple Git-based Wiki”

  1. Pedro Melo says:
    July 21, 2008 at 11:52

    On the whole wiki-over-DVCS-system bandwagon, you could also look at Yaki: http://code.google.com/p/yaki/

  2. Jakub Narebski says:
    July 21, 2008 at 19:57

    See also “Wikis, blogs, etc.” subsection on Interfaces, Frontends And Tools page on Git Wiki:
    http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#head-c6972a1d51ac780d7a175b25687d280e09c820a7

  3. Daniel says:
    February 13, 2009 at 23:02

    Well I was looking for an issue tracker/project management software that integrates well with git. This certainly isn’t it, however I gotta say, this fits better for me then a heavy project management suite. It was easy to set up, It’s nice and minimal, and simple enough that bolting on features that I want should be dead easy. All in all, I gotta say I really like it.

  4. Felix Geisendörfer says:
    April 19, 2009 at 11:33

    Wow, this is fantastic. Thank you so much for creating this project, I hope I’ll be able to add some useful improvements in my GitHub fork.

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