W2 wiki is a web-based, wiki-like notepad that you can host yourself.
- Elegant text markup:
- Uses Markdown Syntax.
- It supports double-brackets [[like this]] to link to another page in the wiki by title
- It supports double-braces {{like this}} to link to an uploaded image
- Title & content search
- Filesystem storage (no database required) in plain Markdown text files.
- Image uploading support
- Optionally password-protected
- Unlike cloud / hosted solutions, you retain control of your data
- Written in PHP for portability and hackability
- Extremely compact (only a few .php files and a .css file)
- Differences to original w2wiki by panicsteve:
- Rudimentary, optional git integration to commit (and push) each page edit
- Support for renaming and deleting pages
- Markdown formatting syntax help on edit page
- Localization support (en/de/ja/oc translations included)
- Improved icon-based interface
- Optional, always visible sidebar fed by a special page
- Merged All/Recent list of all pages
- Links:
- Possibility to display pages that link to the current page
- Support for links to sub-captions (using # in links)
- When navigating to a non-existing page, show links to similar pages
- Mark links to non-existing pages (by default in red)
- Mark external links with globe icon
- Image uploads:
- Option to shrink uploaded images (based on maximum side length)
- Fix rotation (based on EXIF data)
- List of uploaded images providing usage information and option to delete
- Improve upload folder location/configuration
- Currently half hard-coded as "images" subfolder of root
- current setup has strange dependency for uploads folder to be called "images" and to be a direct subfolder of where index.php is (due to serving files from there statically)
- but path also should be within PAGES_PATH (both pagse and uploads should be in same folder to capture both in git repository...)
- so current setup requires an "images" soft link in root folder linking to actual images folder within PAGES_PATH to be fully functional
See Installation instructions.
In its current form, W2 wiki is not security-hardened; it's recommended to only run on an additionally secured server (e.g. in a small, private network for one user only; and secured behind a VPN and/or HTTPS with basic authentication).
W2 is licensed under the MIT license.
Originally written by Steven Frank and others, with modifications by
W2 wiki uses PHP Markdown by Michel Fortin for rendering Markdown to HTML.
The Markdown syntax description is taken from daringfireball.net.
Maintainer of this fork is codeling.
Please report bugs in the github issue tracker of this fork.