Nanowiki

NanoWiki is a Wiki implementation based on picowiki.

I have been using SimpleNote for a number of years. It works pretty well but somehow I was looking for:

• Ability to include and render nice asciiart pictures
• Organizes articles in a folder structure.

So I was looking for a Wiki package that could either do this or be extended to do this.

Other features that I was looking for:

• Use of markdown for markup, and be able to tweak the format as needed.
• Editor that would syntax highlight the markdown syntax
• Store data as simple files
• Written in a language I am familiar with.
• software generated network graphs (graphviz)

So, after looking at a number of packages, I opted for one that allthough did not have all features, but it was small enough and easily extendable.

PicoWiki is a very small Wiki implementation with a plugin architecture, so it is quite easy to extend. The downside of this is that the functionality in PicoWiki is quite limited. So I added the following features:

• file management: create, delete, rename, modify, attach, etc.
• hooks for access control
• meta data support
• Disabled code execution. This can be considered a "security" feature.
• Support for byte ranges. This lets you stream video files directly from the wiki.
• toggable, folder or document views.
• theme support
• Multiple file type handling

The default installations has the following plugins:

• Emoji : Render emojis
• HTML : HTML content handler
• MarkDown : Markdown content handler
• Includes : Include Wiki documents in another
• Vars : Expand variables. Either from document metadata or from the NanoWiki config file.
• WikiLinks : short hand for wiki links.