What’s new in Instiki 0.8.0?
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Camel-case wiki words in all latin, greek, cyrillic, or armenian
characters. Bracket-style wiki words in Japanese, Chinese, or any other
unicode language. Instiki has gone international!
Also in this release: Per-web configuration screen, markup fixes,
changeable stylesheet, no multi/single-web distinction, and many, many
other smaller changes.
http://www.instiki.org/ is running the new version. Do check it out in
the various sandboxes!
Download 0.8.0 from:
http://rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=186
Full change list:
- NOTE: Single-web wikis created in versions prior to 0.8.0 have
“instiki” as their system password - Accepts wiki words in bracket style.
Ex: [[wiki word]], [[c++]], [[We could’nt have done it!]] - Accepts camel-case wiki words in all latin, greek, cyrillian, and
armenian unicode characters
Many thanks to Guan Yang for building the higher- and lower-case
lookup tables
And thanks to Simon Arnaud for the initial patch that got the work
started - Changed charset to UTF-8
- Cut down on command-line options and replaced them with an per-web
config screen - Added option to extend the stylesheet on a per-web basis to tweak the
look in details - Added simple color options for variety
- Added option to add/remove password protection on each web
- Added the wiki name of the author locking a given page (instead of
just “someone”) - Removed single/multi-web distinction—all Instikis are now multi-web
- Load libraries from an unshifted load path, so that old installed
libraries doesn’t clash [Emiel van de Laar] - Keeps the author cookie forever, so you don’t have to enter your name
again and again - Fixed XHTML so it validates [Bruce D’Arcus]
- Authors are no longer listed under orphan pages
- Added export to markup (great for backups, potentially for switching
wiki engine) - Don’t link wiki words that proceeds from either /, = or ?
(http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiClones, /show/HomePage,
cgi.pl?show=WikiWord without escaping) - Accessing an unexisting page redirects to a different url
(/new/PageName) - Increased snapshot time to just once a day (cuts down on disk storage
requirements) - Made RDoc support work better with 1.8.1 [Mauricio Fernández]
- Added convinient redirect from /wiki/ to /wiki/show/HomePage
- Fixed Blue Cloth bug with backticks at start of line
- Updated to Red Cloth 2.0.7 (and linked to the new Textile reference)
What is Instiki?
Admitted, it’s Yet Another Wiki Clone[1], but with a strong focus
on simplicity of installation and running:
Step 1. Download
Step 2. Run “instiki.rb”
Step 3. Chuckle… “There’s no step three!” ™
You’re now running a perfectly suitable wiki on port 2500
that’ll present you with one-step setup, followed by a textarea for the
home page
on http://localhost:2500.
Instiki lowers the barriers of interest for when you might consider
using a wiki. It’s so simple to get running that you’ll find yourself
using it for anything – taking notes, brainstorming, organizing a
gathering.
Features:
- Regular expression search: Find deep stuff really fast
- Revisions: Follow the changes on every page from birth. Rollback to
an earlier rev - Export to HTML or markup in a zip: Take the entire wiki with you home
or for reference - RSS feeds to track recently revised pages
- Multiple webs: Create separate wikis with their own namespace
- Password-protected webs: Keep it private
- Authors: Each revision is associated with an author, so you can see
who changed what - Reference tracker: Which other pages are pointing to the current?
- Speed: Using Madelein for persistence (all pages are in memory)
- Three markup choices: Textile (default / RedCloth), Markdown
(BlueCloth), and RDoc - Embedded webserver: Through WEBrick
- Internationalization: Wiki words in any latin, greek, cyrillian, or
armenian characters
Missing:
- File attachments
Command-line options:
Run “ruby instiki.rb --help”
History:
- 0.8.0: NOTE: Single-web wikis created in versions prior to 0.8.0 have
“instiki” as their system password
Accepts wiki words in bracket style. Ex: [[wiki word]], [[c]],
[[We could’nt have done it!]]
Accepts camel-case wiki words in all latin, greek, cyrillian,
and armenian unicode characters
Many thanks to Guan Yang for building the higher- and
lower-case lookup tables
And thanks to Simon Arnaud for the initial patch that got
the work started
Changed charset to UTF-8
Cut down on command-line options and replaced them with an
per-web config screen
Added option to extend the stylesheet on a per-web basis to
tweak the look in details
Added simple color options for variety
Added option to add/remove password protection on each web
Added the wiki name of the author locking a given page
(instead of just “someone”)
Removed single/multi-web distinction – all Instikis are now
multi-web
Load libraries from an unshifted load path, so that old
installed libraries doesn’t clash [Emiel van de Laar]
Keeps the author cookie forever, so you don’t have to enter
your name again and again
Fixed XHTML so it validates [Bruce D’Arcus]
Authors are no longer listed under orphan pages
Added export to markup (great for backups, potentially for
switching wiki engine)
Don’t link wiki words that proceeds from either /, = or ?
(http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiClones, /show/HomePage,
cgi.pl?show=WikiWord without escaping)
Accessing an unexisting page redirects to a different url
(/new/PageName)
Increased snapshot time to just once a day (cuts down on disk
storage requirements)
Made RDoc support work better with 1.8.1 [Mauricio Fernández]
Added convinient redirect from /wiki/ to /wiki/show/HomePage
Fixed BlueCloth bug with backticks at start of line
Updated to RedCloth 2.0.7 (and linked to the new Textile
reference) - 0.7.0: Added Markdown (BlueCloth) and RDoc [Mauricio Fernández] as
command-line markup choices
Added wanted and orphan page lists to All pages (only show up
if there’s actually orphan or wanted pages)
Added ISO-8859-1 as XML encoding in RSS feeds (makes
FeedReader among others happy for special entities)
Added proper links in the RSS feed (but the body links are
still relative, which NNW and others doesn’t grok)
Added access keys: E => Edit, H => HomePage, A => All Pages, U
=> Recently Revised, X => Export
Added password-login through URL (so you can subscribe to feed
on a protected web)
Added web passwords to the feed links for protected webs, so
they work without manual login
Added the web name in small letters above all pages within a
web
Polished authors and recently revised
Updated to RedCloth 2.0.6
Changed content type for RSS feeds to text/xml (makes Mozilla
Aggreg8 happy)
Changed searching to be case insensitive
Changed HomePage to display the name of the web instead
Changed exported HTML pages to be valid XHTML (which can be
preprocessed by XSLT)
Fixed broken recently revised - 0.6.0: Fixed Windows compatibility [Florian]
Fixed bug that would prevent Madeleine from taking snapshots
in Daemon mode
Added export entire web as HTML in a zip file
Added RSS feeds
Added proper getops support for the growing number of options
[Florian]
Added safe mode that forbids style options in RedCloth
[Florian]
Updated RedCloth to 2.0.5 - 0.5.0: NOTE: 0.5.0 is NOT compatible with databases from earlier
versions
Added revisions
Added multiple webs
Added password protection for webs on multi-web setups
Added the notion of authors (that are saved in a cookie)
Added command-line option for not running as a Daemon on Unix - 0.3.1: Added option to escape wiki words with \
- 0.3.0: Brought all files into common style (including Textile help on
the edit page)
Added page locking (if someone already is editing a page
there’s a warning)
Added daemon abilities on Unix (keep Instiki running after you
close the terminal)
Made port 2500 the default port, so Instiki can be launched by
dobbelt-click
Added Textile cache to speed-up rendering of large pages
Made WikiWords look like “Wiki Words”
Updated RedCloth to 2.0.4 - 0.2.5: Upgraded to RedCloth 2.0.2 and Madeleine 0.6.1, which means the
Windows problems are gone. Also fixed a problem with wikiwords
that used part of other wikiwords. - 0.2.0: First public release
Visit the official Instiki wiki:
http://www.instiki.org/
License is the same as Ruby’s
[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?
WikiWikiClones
[2] Textile Syntax: http://www.textism.com/
tools/textile/
David Heinemeier Hansson,
david@loudthinking.com
http://www.loudthinking.com/
David Heinemeier Hansson,
http://www.instiki.org/ – A No-Step-Three Wiki in Ruby
http://www.basecamphq.com/ – Web-based Project Management
http://www.loudthinking.com/ – Broadcasting Brain