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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:

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0000

"Wikidot.com makes my live easier (and more enjoyable). It's still the best wiki platform (not that I'm looking for another one!).

A wiki provides an excellent way to share information. Most providers have annoying limitations or force you to show ads. Wikidot doesn't and has a nice community feel.

Do you have your own personal website to help people find you? With Wikidot you can easily create your own web presence. You can even use your own domain name like www.promodsharma.com.

What good is information you can't access? I collect inspirational and insightful quotations but I had trouble finding them at the right time. Thanks to Wikidot.com, I now have a nice repository at www.sparkinsight.com . What's more, others can also benefit.

I hate losing or misplacing information. So I put stuff on Wikidot.com whenever possible. I no longer worry about backups. A simple search finds what I want instantly. Beautiful!

You can build a wiki in steps. Before long, you'll have a meaningful site. Did I do that? Yes, with the help of Wikidot.com."

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

Installation Guide:

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:12:26 +0000

olas

Comparison 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.

[BUG 23] "download the ZIPped backup" points to wrong URL: FIXED

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:51:41 +0000

http://github.com/gabrys/wikidot/commit/8c29b606a1b58872a31d60147d3bfa5efc5b5f95

Demo Server Published: Re:

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:30:01 +0000

Start with http://sandbox.wikidot.org/forms:_template/edit/true It's definition of the form.

Then see how it looks on http://sandbox.wikidot.org/forms:something/edit/true

The nicest (in my opinion) is the pagepath field type. It allows you to browse the pages tree in given category, to select a page from it.

Demo Server Published:

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:16:44 +0000

can you help me with the forms on your sandbox?

Demo Server Published: Re: Captcha not working?

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 08:01:48 +0000

Hi Ed,

Captcha not working is a bug of no php5-gd in requirement list. Updating Installation guide. Thank you.

On the other hand, registration should not be enabled, because I haven't set up the mail server, and this is also reported as bug 11.

But sandbox is editable by anyone, so feel free to play anyhow :)

Demo Server Published: Captcha not working?

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:51:36 +0000

I finally got caught up with some other stuff and was going to play with the demo server. I can't get very far trying to create an account - captcha is not displaying properly.

I recall having this issue WAAAAAAY BACK in the beginning with my server, but can't remember what ended up fixing it.

I just installed the 30 day trial of VMWare Workstation 6.5. It's very impressive! I'm going to try a GIT install of the latest bleeding edge code and see how it goes.

-Ed

Demo Server Published:

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:23:56 +0000

Nice… I like it!