Instiki

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0.12:ZIP | TGZ

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Sandboxes
Play around with Instiki:
Textile | Markdown | RDoc

Key Features

Revisions
Follow or rollback any change to any page.

Exporting
Take the entire wiki home with you as HTML or markup rolled up in a zip.

Internationalization
Camel Case Wiki Words are supported- in Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Armenian characters. Bracket Style wiki words work in all languages.

RSS feeds
Know when content is added.

Markup choices
Write wiki pages in Textile, Markdown or RDoc.

More: Instiki Features

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Important Security Upgrade! Please update to Instiki 0.12 immediately!

Instiki (What Is Instiki) is a wiki clone so pretty and easy to set up, you’ll wonder if it’s really a wiki.

In fact it’s not only a wiki. It supports file uploads, PDF export, RSS feeds, multiple users, multiple wiki sites and password protection. Some people even use Instiki as a CMS - Content Management System because of its ability to export static pages.

Windows
  1. Download
  2. run “instiki.cmd” with Ruby 1.8.4 or greater installed (get One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows)
  3. Chuckle… There Is No Step Three™! :) (See note)
Mac OS X
  1. Download
  2. run “instiki” with Ruby 1.8.4 or greater installed (get the Ruby One-Click Installer for OSX)
  3. Chuckle… There Is No Step Three™! :) (See note)
    If you have problems such as “wiki not found” please read SQLite issues on OSX
Linux
  1. Download
  2. run “instiki” with Ruby 1.8.4 or greater installed (compile Ruby by yourself or check if there are packages for Ruby or even instiki in your package-installer)
  3. Chuckle… There Is No Step Three™! :) (See note)

Now Instiki is running on port 2500. Visit http://localhost:2500 for quick configuration followed by a text area for the home page….

Note: As of version 0.11.0, this applies only to the Windows and OSX version with Ruby installed. If you are using any other system, please read more about Installation.

Instiki only relies on Ruby—the sole external dependency (it includes all other dependencies).
Any OS that can run Ruby can run Instiki – that includes Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and most known Unix flavors.
Instiki on BeOS, Amiga OS, OS2, Zeta OS and support for various exotic Platforms is planned. Mostly it already works, if Ruby runs there (download the linux version in this case). Please contact parasew if you want to help out for your OS that is not listed. Please also get in touch if you are able to create an instiki package for your favourite unix or linux distribution.

HOW TO SUPPORT INSTIKI
Test Instiki on your OS and report back to the Mailinglist or file a bug report if you find errors. Please check the Mail Archives and the bug tracker before submitting.
If you know Ruby, support with extending and bugfixing Instiki. Read How To Contribute, see the Current Todo or fix bugs from the bug tracker or the old dev.instiki.org trac site
You can also do new stuff from Feature Request or make your own additions.

RULES

  1. please, keep discussions on the Rubyforge Forums or the Instiki Users Mailinglist and not on this Wiki!
  2. If you want to help with bug reporting or patches, please use only the instiki rubyforge trackers to. If you want to help out more, mail to parasew

Current Schedule: working on instiki 0.13

News

Ruby One-Click Installer for OSX Juli 12, 2007
to keep the “there is no step three” for Mac OSX, i developed a One-Click Installer for OSX which makes it very easy for people running Mac OS X to get Ruby up and running, even without Apple XCODE!—parasew

instiki SVN move to Rubyforge April 19, 2007
i moved the instiki subversion repository to rubyforge, since the
people at textdrive don’t respond to my support requests and
dev.instiki.org gets spammed to death. find the new repository at the rubyforge site: http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=186
those people who need or want a developer account, please contact me
directly via mail. please also commit patches, support requests, bugs
and that kind of stuff only to the rubyforge page from now on.

0.12 will be late March 4, 2007
I’m sick, lying in bed and cannot work that much on instiki these days. I apologize for the 0.12 version being late a little. Please do submit your patches and bugfixes in the meanwhile. I will continue working on the 0.12 release when i am better. —parasew

cross site scripting vulnerability! please update your instiki to 0.11.pl1 Febuary 27, 2007
People running Instiki 0.11 should update immediately to Instiki 0.11pl1
The issue was reported already some days ago, sadly i couldn’t react faster. Now, download the new release since it also includes some fixes and featuresparasew

hivelogic stress test Febuary 13, 2007
The current trunk version of instiki has the plugin form-spam-protection included. To stress test this plugin for an upcoming anti-spam edition of instiki i disabled the dnsbl_check on this main wiki and just let the form-spam-protection plugin show its strength. Hope it works out! Feedback welcome!—parasew

importers and exporters wanted Febuary 8, 2007
Which importers from other wiki systems and formats would you use? Are there any exporters missing? Please let us know in the Feature Request Page. Did you already write an importer or exporter script? Submit it to the instiki patch trackerparasew

trac problem solved January 15, 2007
I solved the trac issues by myself, if anyone experiences similar problems, just disable trac reports
We should prepare a move to the great looking ruby-based retrospectiva
Please use only the trac now for bug reporting and sending patches! anonymous reporting enabled!—
parasew

sorry for downtime January 10, 2007
I apologize for the long downtime of the instiki main site end of december. The main instiki site runs patched on mongrel, which crashed. now this won’t happen again, since there is a cronjob checking if things are going well!—parasew

Spam Activity drastically reduced November 19, 2006
Spam on the current instiki site reduced drastically, after applying the dnsbl_check – a realtime lookup to blacklisted IPs. Still there is some spamming going on. Please post your anti-spamming and spamfixig-ideas to AntiSpam, we will provide patches soon. —parasew

Instiki Site Uses DNS-Blacklist now November 18, 2006
The current Instiki Website uses dnsbl_check a realtime DNS-Blacklist checker Plugin for Rails. Hopefully this reduces the Wikispam. This is just one of the Anti-Spam-Features to be available in instiki 0.12 soon. —parasew

Bazaar branches available June 11, 2006
A Bazaar mirror of Instiki’s subversion trunk and branches with various bugfixes and (soon) new feature work are now available. See Bzr Branches for details. —John Whitley

Instiki.org upgraded March 19, 2006
Instiki.org is now running on version 0.11.0 (with a couple of tweaks). —Alexey Verkhovsky

Instiki 0.11.0 released March 19, 2006
The switch from Madeleine to ActiveRecord has finally happened. File Uploads are finally there.
I will put some documentation on this wiki in the next few days, meantime instructions for migrating from earlier versions are in the README . —Alexey Verkhovsky
.org/attachment/ticket/2245/as_clean_logger_rb-fixed.patch. Thank you and goodnight.

OS X available for 0.10.2 August 1, 2005
Oleg Kourapov has provided a .dmg file for Instiki 0.10.2 for OS X 10.4. Mac Tiger users, rejoice. Does not work on 10.3 or before. —Alexey Verkhovsky

Assistance requests
These can all be handled by the FAQ and User's Guide seen in the right bar..