1   Goals

CPSWiki aims to provide a light, flexible Wiki for CPS, with all features a wiki can give.

2   Features

• Automatic front page, based on the wiki content

• Automatic summary, based on the wiki content, that gathers all content in one HTML page.

• Page locking to avoid conflicts, the lock is done with a heartbeat technique

• Several wiki page parser engine for rendering:

  • HTML
  • reST
  • wikiwikiweb

  based on a plugin framework, parsers are extensible.

• Internal page caching

• Ability to upload files into pages

3   TODO

• Wiki objects should be BTree folders
• add a js warning on page deletion
• add UI to change page title
• add a merge proposal when a user tries to commit after a lock timeout
• add a link on history page so the user can restore a version
• add UI to manage Wiki parser selection
• add UI to add content in a wikipage (it's already folder so it's just a form away)
• add a zcatalog dedicated to the wiki -> until then, need to index content in general portal_catalog
• making something better on container view
• add UI to easily call CPSSubcription for wiki notifications
• add UI to import ZWiki pages
• add a PDF export
• setup RDF relations between pages, so relations can be made between pages, using keywords
• ...

4   Useful links

Report bugs and other things here: http://svn.nuxeo.org/trac/pub

5   Other Wiki software or services

• XWiki

  http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

  XWiki is a WikiWiki clone written in Java which supports many popular features of other Wikis like:

  • Wiki syntax (uses Radeox engine)
  • Content management (view/edit/preview/save)
  • Version Control
  • Attachments
  • Rights Management
  • Full-text Search

  It also has many advanced features that many other wiki engines lack:

  • Document Templates to ease creation of common documents.
  • Relational Database storage using Hibernate.
  • Design Engine for Meta-Data and Forms.
  • In-place (in-line) editing of form information in pages.
  • Powerful programming API in documents (Velocity or Groovy)
  • Search API for more detailed searching in the Meta-Data.
  • Plugin System in Java.
  • Plugin compatibility layer in Perl with some TWiki plugins.
  • Scalability and Performance using J2EE.
  • Complete Skin System (templates content as well as CSS).
  • RSS output and display of external RSS feeds
  • Multi-Lingual capabilities
  • XML/RPC Remote API
  • Portlet Integration
  • Integrated Statistics
  • PDF Export
  • WYSIWYG HTML Editing

• Confluence (Java/Servlet-based)

  Has macros: see http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Guide+to+Confluence+Macros

  Interesting AJAX-style task manager: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Dynamic+Tasklist+Macro

• TWiki

• MoinMoin

• Jot

  Commercial product

  http://www.jot.com/

• Socialtext

  Another commercial product

  http://www.socialtext.com

• SnipSnap

  Integrates Blog and Wiki

• ZWiki

• Platypus / Pytypus

  Platypus Wiki is a project to develop an enhanced Wiki Wiki Web with ideas borrowed from the Semantic Web.

  It offers a simple user interface to create wiki pages with metadata based on W3C standards.

  It uses RDF (Resource Description Framework), RDF Schema and OWL (Web Ontology Language) to create ontologies and manage metadata.

  • http://platypuswiki.sourceforge.net/
  • http://www.pytypus.org/ (broken right now)
  • Source on http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pytypus/server/

• Instiki

  Ruby-based

  http://instiki.org/

• Others:

  • http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?TopTenWikiEngines
  • http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:compare?s=compare
  • http://platypuswiki.sourceforge.net/whatis/related/index.html
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiClones
  • http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines

6   References

• How To Use Wikis For Business (InformationWeek)