Wikka Features
The following is a list of features available in Wikka as of version 1.1.6.3.General information
- Programming language: PHP.
- | Storage: MySQL.
- Operating system: platform-independent.
- License: GPL.
- Development status: mature/production.
- Intended audience:
- Individual users (PIM/website backend);
- Development teams (software documentation);
- Companies and organizations (intranet/public website backend).
Output
- W3C compliant XHTML 1.0 transitional.
- Easily customizable layout (CSS 2.0) with CSS-driven print support.
- Global and page-level RSS feeds (RSS 0.92/2.0) with autodiscovery support.
- Easily customizable English interface.
- Footer comments (optional).
- Human- and Search-engine-friendly page titles.
- Page content can be rendered with or without formatting.
Installation
- 100% web-based upgrading from WakkaWiki.
- Shell/root access not required;
- Optional rewrite rules support.
Security and antispam features
- SafeHTML function to filter potentially dangerous content.
- Fine-grained access control through:
- folder-level .htaccess files.
- global ACL.
- page-level ACL.
- Advanced referrer management with blacklist support.
Page editing
- Page preview.
- Edit notes support.
- Search & replace handler
- Doubleclick quick editing.
Formatting
- A large selection of wiki markup options, with support for
- text styling;
- headings;
- multiple types of lists;
- code blocks;
- floats;
- tables;
- threaded comments;
- notes.
- HTML can be embedded in pages in a safe manner.
Links
- Support for:
- automatically parsed links;
- image-links;
- forced links (with link text);
- plain HTML <a href="..."> links.
- Several shortcuts for interwiki linking.
Media & files
- Images (accessibility enforced through the use of the image action).
- Native support for mindmaps.
Advanced features
- A large selection of plugins and user contributions, including: calendar, feedback form, Google search form among others.
- Advanced code highlighting (using GeSHi):
- support for several languages;
- easily customizable output;
- line numbering;
- clickable markup pointers to official documentation;
- On-the-fly code block downloading.
- WikiPing functionality (optional) to broadcast lists of recent changes to remote servers.
Page-related features
- Page PageOwnership | and fine-grained page-level ACLInfo access control.
- Pages can be safely embedded in each other.
- Advanced text searching. See TextSearch for examples (some of the examples will only work if MySQL 4.X is in use).
User-related features
- Configurable user login and registration screens.
- Password retrieval utilities.
- User preferences and userpages.
- Lists of pages owned or recently edited by specific users.
Statistics and information
- Detailed system information.
- Tools for displaying statistics on pages and users.
Page management tools
- Revision management tools:
- Page history easily viewed at a glance.
- Full comparison of page revisions (between any two versions) with highlighting of differences.
- RSS feeds for global changes and for page revisions.
- Tools to track pages without links and missing pages.
Administration tools
- A large number of system configuration settings.
- Admin users and advanced ACL support for managing user privileges at individual page-level (read/write/comment).
- Page can be deleted by admins or page owner.
- Comments can be deleted by page owner, comment poster, or admins.
- Optional gzip page compression.
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