Some background

I first came to WikkaWiki before quite some years looking for a wiki solution for the PtokaX Direct Connect Hub. I witnessed a good amount of activity, large enough to make me want to contribute.

My need to contribute to this newly-found coding community drove me enough to start learn PHP to the point I got some actions contributed.
Then after a summer of contributions my life undertook some changes and I did not feel like using a wiki, whenever Wikka crossed my mind I always checked the site to see how it is developing.

Lately I needed a wiki solution for a community of Greek professionals. First on my mind was WikkaWiki I downloaded, saw that things were basically more or less the same since 1.12 (ok, excuse me I know some stuff where better).
I gave MediaWiki a try and I (still find) found it too cumbersome and requiring too much activity and moderation for a community to have a proper wiki with it.

While I found WikkaWiki a bit stale, I did want to see some code and read through it. I saw the issue tracker site, I noticed some directions (for example for the 1.3 milestone) and some efforts for doing i18n, implementing utf8, user groups, templates, etc. What made sad was that there was no change on the way that WikkaWiki was doing things as far as code is concerned. Having meddled with some PHP projects ever since and read / practiced / experimented with a lot of things PHP last two years I find that the code is a filthy place. It is obvious that there hasn't been a code review for ages, which leads to fragmented and non uniform nor unified approaches to regular web application problems.