Wikini
Summary sheet of actions
General Wikini functions
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Editing pages
- Everyone can write, without exception, due to the "Edit this page" link at the bottom of each page. This is the core functionality of the product (as for all Wikis).
- For browsers supporting JavaScript, you can edit a page simply by double clicking on it. (Configurable per user)
- Simplified editing using an uncomplicated syntax : see Formatting rules ; no need to learn HTML to publish on the Web!
- Immediate publication : saved pages are immediately available on the site
- Management of editing conflicts (when two people publish at the same time)
- Ability to add comments
- A macro to convert Word documents into WikiNi format
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Page management
- Delete function, available to the owner of an orphan page
- Page version management
- Show differences between two versions of a page (additions and deletions)
- Inbuilt search engine
- List of pages referencing a given page (see BackLinks)
- List of Orphan pages (pages not referenced by any other page)
- List of Pages to create (pages referenced in other pages, but not yet created)
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Permissions management
- Management of user accounts
- Access control to each page - read, write, comment. (See Access control)
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Site management
Administrator functionality
- Installation via a browser
- Support for multiple sites from a single installation
- Customisable functionality, add-ons, via the "actions" system
- Look and feel management by CSS style sheet
Advantages of Wikini
- Very light but complete Wiki engine - Designed for speed and shared servers
- Fast and easy installation (less than 10 minutes!)
- Simplest possible editing (see for example l'IndentationVisuelle visual indenting)
- Easily customised look and feel (requires basic knowledge of CSS)
- Easy to add or customise functionality (requires basic knowledge of PHP) : a plug-in can be developed in a few minutes (see write an action and write a handler)
- Compatible with all Internet standards : XHTML 1.0 + CSS
- Run anywhere : WikiNi works with standard Php/MySQL platforms (no optional modules required) (see prerequesites and list of hosting services supporting WikiNi)
- Complete French 'port': software and development are entirely in French.
- Open and transparent project under free licence (see WikiNi project philosophy)