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This is an old revision of HansEric made by HansEric on 2007-01-16 05:51:10.

Dartar's page

Some hot selections
Among my Wikka contributions:

IncludeRemote - a plugin for fetching wikka-formatted content from a remote Wikka server

PageAdminAction - a page administration module

UserAdmin - a user management module

MySkin - a beta skin selector and editor

WikkaMenus - a module for customizing wikka menus

PagedComments - a configurable comment pager

A bunch of TestSkin CSS stylesheets for Wikka, including:

dartar.css

dartar2.css

dariotaraborelli.css

minigray.css

pink.css

smooth.css

void.css

whitew.css

GrabCodeHandler - a quick download handler for code blocks

AcronymFormatter - a parse for acronyms/abbreviations

InvisibleWiki - hints on how to run an invisible wiki engine

I bumped into WikkaWiki as a very easy-to-install WikiEngine wiki engine while I was reviewing a number of open source CMS for a project. I needed easy extensibility, a good CSS support, and something MySQL/PHP based. I made some hacks to the code, became more and more involved and... finally became part of the CreditsPage Wikka development crew.

Why Wikka instead of other wikis?

I believe the main appeal of Wikka to many of its users lies in its LightweightInfo lightweightness and its easy hackability. Installing a wiki on an existing website is often painfully hard for the unexperienced user. Making it look and feel as the site itself is sometimes even harder. People willing to:

WikkaIntegration integrate seamlessly a wiki engine into their site (without having to dig into dozens of lines of code);

have their site run by an InvisibleWiki invisible wiki engine;

might have good reasons to choose Wikka.

Why lightweightness matters ?

Lightweightness does not mean lack of WikkaFeatures features.
Lightweightness is what spares you from discovering something like this (quoting from Special:Statistics, after a fresh installation of MediaWiki on my machine and some very preliminary testing):

There are 734 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Wikipedia, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages.
Excluding those, there are 3 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.

A touch of style

Wikka is structure. To shape its surface you can create and select TestSkin skins

Using wikka

I've created and maintain openformats.org a site for promoting open formats based on Wikka 1.1.3, with a couple of hacks:

UTF-8 Support - thanks to AndreaRossato's HandlingUTF8 code and unvaluable help;

UserAdmin - user management interface;

FeedbackAction - displays a module to send feedback to the wiki administrator;

IncludeAction (adapted from Wikini) - includes more pages in a single page;

NotifyOnChange - a simple way to get an email notification each time a page is edited (adapted from Wikini);

dynamic CSS - random modifications of the wiki layout;

altlang links for same page in different languages;

HideReferrers - avoids spambot problems by hiding the referrer link to anonymous users;

LoggedUsersHomepage - creates a different homepage for logged users;

RedirectOnLogin - automatically redirects to a specific page on login/logout;

SmartTitle - checks if a ==Header== of any level is included in the page body, otherwise displays pagename;

I'm also using a slightly modified version of Wikka 1.1.3 at webepistemology.org. My personal homepage runs on Wikka 1.1.6.0.

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Wikka : HansEric