Cloud Wiki

Implemented by Scott Dunlop, Cloud Wiki provides a simple, fast environment that limits itself to features necessary for providing user-editable content quickly, with a minimal learning curve.

Cloud Wiki is now an official Sourceforge project. The latest releases of Cloud Wiki should be downloaded from our project file releases to ease congestion on KMN. Cloud Wiki's DARCS repository is also now hosted on Sourceforge.

Development Status:

• The latest stable release is Version 2.1, which introduces a fix for the URL Mangling Bug, and adds new behavior for editorial comments that prevents them from being exported in static pages.
• The next development release will be Version 2.2, which contains a fix for clearing cached HTML associated with a deleted node, and adds support for fetching user authentication information from a PunBB forum.

Useful Links for New Cloud Wiki Users:

• Browsing Nodes -- An introduction to wikis, and how to quickly navigate them.
• Editing Nodes -- How to create and edit your own wiki nodes.
• Installing Cloud Wiki -- How to install Cloud Wiki.
• Cloud Wiki Manual -- For anything else related to Cloud Wiki.
• Bug List -- If you are having a problem with Cloud Wiki, especially an older version, check the bug list for known bugs, workarounds, and what version will fix the bug.

Public Cloud Wiki Sites:

• Kabuki Wiki, used for hosting the Kabuki Server manual, and the dissemination of persistent information between game sessions.
• MOSVM Reference, used by Ephemeral Security's documentation team to document the Mosquito environment.

Significant Features of Cloud Wiki:

• Flexible user authentication system. See An Argument Against Anonymous Wikis for an explanation why Cloud Wiki supports user authentication.
• Implementation of C2 Wiki's fundamental Wiki Principles
• Extremely fast SQLite database used for node storage, caching generated content html, content changes and dependency information.
• Long running web server process, instead of a slow loading CGI. Designed to run well behind a reverse proxy.
• Minimalist markup language designed with an emphasis on having just enough features to be useful, but not so many that new users are intimidated. All linking is done with brace-enclosed free links, for example.
• Modular user authentication system.
• Powerful command line node and server manipulation tools for easy administration.
• An interface to view change/replacements to a node in the past three days.
• Added Nodes gateway to list all nodes added to the wiki in the past three days.
• Changed Nodes gateway to list all nodes changed on the wiki in the past three days.
• Generated content is automatically valid, strict XHTML 1.0.
• Wikis may be exported to static HTML files; our Sourceforge website is produced this way from our test wiki.

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