GetWiki:2.0
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Introducing GetWiki 2.0
With the ability to develop GetWiki fully independently of "Pseudopedian" concerns, GetWiki 2.0 has brought major improvements and changes to GetWiki 1.0. Beyond the endless bugfixes to the MediaWiki codebase from its Wikipedia origins, development stabilized for 1.0 and has since moved toward a few key features and stabilities which make 2.0 even more unique. Continued updates will eliminate all remaining inherited code.
Since the debut of GetWiki in 2004, there have been a proliferation of wiki applications out there, but more importantly, a noticeable reduction of public interest in Wiki-websites in general, as blogs and discussion forums have also proliferated to capture more "mindshare". GetWiki 2.0 is moving toward a model in which "wiki" is only a name for multi-user content, and has already spawned an offshoot codebase, codenamed "Plug", at rimric.com, a site which uses basic wiki functionality alongside a discussion forum and article commentary.
This "GetWiki Lite", if you will, "Plug" was named for its basis in "plugging" one's books and publications. It runs on a fully custom PHP/MySQL code platform, with 0% "legacy" from The Pseudopedia (or even from the existing GetWiki 1.0 codebase). This means GetWiki 2.0 will move toward a blog/bulletin board model, eliminating much of what seemed necessary to wikis only recently: The much misused and outmoded "talk page" is nowhere to be found in "plug", or the use of "namespaces".
GetWiki 1.0 will not be deprecated, and will continue to be supported as technical needs demand. The greatest assets of GetWiki 1.0 are that it is simple, powerful, and based on XML standards. 2.0 simply takes this to the next level by vastly improving the security and interactivity of GetWiki.
Technical Features
key features from GetWiki 1.0
- auto-import of Wiki articles via XML using PHP's Expat Library
- well-formed XHTML and effective use of CSS2
- clear labeling and checkbox placements
- image thumbnail display
- whitelist settings, blocking of non-account editing
- integrated blocks of edits, new accounts and uploads from IP range blocks
- conversion of TeX code for formulas into XHTML
- comprehensive administrator tools
key features in GetWiki 2.0
- anti-spam blacklisting
- rollback and delete new pages from a malicious user
- email registration only, required unique email addresses
- customizable "support", namespace, removal of legacy biases
- user rights enhancements and display
- inline references/citations and other wikicode
- multiple wiki importing, evaluation
- atom/xml news feed
- dynamic content categories and facets with an index
- reorganization of functions and filenames
- additional/different visual styles
Future Improvements
- full support for WikiCreole
- reduction of WikiComplexity toward "Plug" standards
- revamped visual style, like rimric.com
Releases and Downloads
GetWiki 2.0 is not available at this time. The current download for 1.0 is the only GetWiki public release.
- GetWiki 1.0 getwiki-1.0.tar.gz (download folder)
- NOTE: This GetWiki installation is out of sync with 1.0: (gradual forking to GetWiki:2.0)
current technologies
- Apache under Unix/Linux installation recommended
- PHP 4.3.2 - PHP 5 required for application
- MySQL 3.23 - MySQL 4.1 required for database
Acknowledgments
- GetWiki 2.0 designed by M.R.M. Parrott (proteus) and rimric.com
- GetWiki.net - official ibiblio hosted website
