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Installation Guide:

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:26:07 +0000

I think the Open Source project is dead. Rather than re-type everything from a post I made almost a year ago, you can read it here:
http://www.wikidot.org/forum/t-304073/postgresql-8-1-wikidot#post-989994

The short version is that I have been successfully running an older version of WDOS for a few years, but the current version seems to be difficult/impossible to install cleanly. I haven't messed with it in a long while and I'm just enough of a Linux noob that I have trouble problem-solving issues when I run into them.

Since the version I'm running as well as the current version here are both far, far behind the current feature set of wikidot.com, I have a hard time recommending WDOS to anyone at this point.

Installation Guide: Is the OpenSource Version of Wikidot still supported?

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:39:46 +0000

Hello!

i tried to install wikidot on my home server - running a somewhat current debian squeeze version.

First thing I noted is that the git submodule spyc from

git://git.utsl.gen.nz/mirror/repo.or.cz/spyc.git

could not be fetched. Therefore I downloaded the version directly from sourceforge http://code.google.com/p/spyc/.

Then i used the postgresql-8.4 version to install tetex-bin tetex-extra seemed already be outdated and i did not use them. When running make the error occurs that the function set_curcfg does not exist. After some searching i found that this function is part of the tsearch2 module which is part of the postgresql-contrib package. After installing the package and running the sql file on the database (psql wikidot < tsearch2.sql) the next error occured -
Uncaught exception 'OzoneDatabaseException' with message 'error: ERROR: invalid value for parameter "default_text_search_config": "default".

/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.4-main.log dumps errors like that:

CET ERROR: schema "ts2" does not exist CET ERROR: function set_curcfg(unknown) does not exist at character 8

So i was wondering if the Open Source version is still supported and if anyone has a solution to the problem?

Best Regards
Christian

Wikidot Moved To Git And Other Changes: too bad the wikidot content itself is not stored in GIT

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:18:33 +0000

too bad the wikidot content itself is not stored in GIT, because right now there is no way to get a complete backup of your data in wikidot.

Trapped in the cloud…

Setting a mini DNS service for your home Wikidot network: new version of Wikidot for download?

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:35:24 +0000

Thanks for this howto! Do you think we will be able to download a new version of wikidot soon?

Installation Guide: Re: Would you help me to install On VPS ?

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:25:41 +0000

Could you please provide more information? I don't want to google "VPS".

[BUG 29] WebStats not working correctly:

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:52:12 +0000

Wayne,

This is the site for reporting Open Source bugs. I think you want to report this at feedback.wikidot.com

-Ed

Installation Guide: Would you help me to install On VPS ?

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:58:41 +0000

I have VPS and would need some guidelines to get started with the installation .Could any one help me with the guidance?

Thanks !

Installation Guide:

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:49:23 +0000

Im sure some kind of experience with linux and web servers is definitely going to be a big help. Nevertheless what stops you from trying, since it is so easy these days to install ubuntu to a usb hard disk and have it both ways

Installation Guide: What knowledge does it needed to install wikidot

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:06:48 +0000

I have just gone trough this line "…host big farms of wikis on a regular Linux computer." on wikidot's home page .
I know HTML and php .Does anybody have Idea that What knowledge does it needed to install and make it work ?

Some News:

Tue, 11 May 2010 12:45:51 +0000

Wait — did I read that CSIs are available in the open source version? This is closer to the wikidot.com version than I expected. I thought .org was at least a year behind! :D

Some News: Sounds Great...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:18:39 +0000

I have over the past few weeks created my first wiki on wikidot.com (I had used wowwiki.com but never edited/updated a wiki) so have gotten use to how it works and what I can and can't do with it. Recently it occurred to me that if we used a wiki for our documentation for code changes (in our in-house system) this would be MUCH more versatile than loads of word documents…
So when I started digging to find a free wiki we could install in the security of our own system and found you have already opened the source to wikidot.com and are about(ish) to open it again from the current branch and everything I have come to understand on wikidot.com I was so please. There will be no relearning the changes and anything I learn from my wiki on wikidot.com could be applied straight to using our local copy and all of our documentation.
Thanks for all the hard work and keep it up! I can’t wait until you manager to release the new version!

Regards,

Zas

Comparison of Wikidot to other wiki engines:

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:16:34 +0000

Wikimatrix tables are …. not very clear. List pages in mediawiki doesn't exist, not by default. There is the dynamic list pages extension but no wiki farm has it enabled because it's heavy and slows down everyone. And all farms running mediawiki has the default 3 columns category pages, which are really bad for many scenarios, specially when categories are categorized and categories listing over 1000 pages.

I think that there is a missconception of considering a wiki anything that has an edit this page button.

http://moinmo.in/WikiEngineComparison
http://mojomojo.org/documentation

Lots of "this wiki has this, that wiki lacks that".

there is one thing that I find it curious, all wiki engines support some features that add functionality to wikis, such as count pages or list all categories. Netcipia runs xwiki, which calls such things "mini-applications". Other wiki engines call them macros, sometimes scripts, or like mediawiki, extensions. Wikidot itself refers to them as "modules" for instance.

I'm testing wikispot, they support tags like wikidot but their implementation is reverse. In wikidot you tag pages and list pages by tag, in wikispot you link a page to some kind of master page, which can act as hub for all pages that link to it. Damn, sycamore lacks html tags, which I really depend on… Sycamore has a different concept, there are no inline styling like mediawiki or mediawiki template definitions, they use css classes instead.

Big Progress: Re: Are there any third party installations

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:13:56 +0000

http://www.wikicomplete.info/ is running Wikidot software and I've been running the open source version at my work for nearly 2 years (private wiki).

I have a "Wikidot-In-A-Box" installable ISO image that is based on an older revision of the open source code:
http://my-wd-local.wikidot.com/guide:installable-iso-and-a-virtual-machine

That article describes how to install it in a VirtualBox VM, but it can also be used to install on any hardware that Ubuntu will run on.

I've been working on a VMWare-based image, but it's not "ready for prime time" yet.

-Ed

Big Progress: Are there any third party installations

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:22:14 +0000

Are there any existing third party installations of Wikidot.org?

DEB Packages For Wikidot: Error under Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:54:31 +0000

Error under Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty:

$ sudo dpkg -i wikidot_0.90_all.deb
(Lecture de la base de données… 152101 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Dépaquetage de wikidot (à partir de wikidot_0.90_all.deb) …
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 29: /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3: not found
dpkg : erreur de traitement de wikidot_0.90_all.deb (—install) :
le sous-processus pre-installation script a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 127
userdel : l'utilisateur wikidot n'existe pas
sudo: no passwd entry for postgres!
sudo: no passwd entry for postgres!
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
wikidot_0.90_all.deb

Big Progress:

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:41:33 +0000

Hi, I recently become a user of wikidot.com, and I like it so much now. (and currently I try to move my workplace onto it.) I like wikidot.com because is has rich good features, highly configurable, and finally it has open source version and community. (maybe many people agree with it.) so this "Big Progress" is very nice to all of us.

Thanks,
—
"The love you take is equal to the love you make." — The End, by Beatles

[BUG 6] Demo server not public: DONE

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:18:03 +0000

http://sandbox.wikidot.org/

[BUG 21] Make Ubuntu packages:

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:15:14 +0000

DONE

Big Progress:

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:53:58 +0000

For what it's worth, the open source version of Wikidot is absolutely critical to our business plans. I've personally been writing open source since 1991, and I believe that any software that is not open source will eventually die. This has been my experience, without exception, on every project I've ever worked. 100%.

Piotr has been doing an amazing, fantastic job on Wikidot.org and we now need to merge this experience back into Wikidot.com so that there is no risk of a permanent branch, which would be a serious problem.

I appreciate your patience with this. We will, and this is a formal promise, continue to invest in an open source Wikidot product that is as close as possible to the codebase used on Wikidot.com.

Thanks
Pieter

DEB Packages For Wikidot: Package created

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:42:14 +0000

The resulting debian packages.