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Soywiki: a wiki built on top of Vim and Git.

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That's really overkill for a vim-powered wiki. All you need to do is to add: map gf :tabnew to your .vimrc.

There is also GitHub's gollum [1] . It's also uses git as storage. Gollum supports a lot of formats for page content and some of these formats have a good support in Vim.

[1] https://github.com/github/gollum

I too support the idea that "CamelCase WikiLinks rule", Ward is my hero. However I "slightly" extended the definition of what a wiki word is to accomodate: #categories, mail@addr.esses and @jhr twitter names.

It seems that the vim guys are getting jealous of Emacs org-mode :)

This seems to be a straightforward wiki, however, wiki-orgmode and VimOrganizer strive for something closer to org-mode.

Very cool project. Wiki for Vim (running in the console), written in Ruby. Will keep an eye on it.

(Sorry to potentially hijack)

Incidentally, I just built a web-based wiki because I wanted one that was fast, wasn't hinged on git(hub), and could be modified easily to my tastes.

I'd like to know if there's any interest in a stripped down and fast alternative to MediaWiki as using it for a friend's project recently was killing me.

Yes, there is. Would you provide us with a link or some more information?

http://bitemyapp.com:8000/ there's a test build of it,

https://github.com/bitemyapp/thodol

and there's the github. It's nowhere near done, and while history is being saved, I need to make a differential front-end to it.

Let me know if you want an account on the test deployment.

If people show an interest, I'll start taking suggestions on features and implement them.

I could probably get it rest of the way to 80% done in one more weekend. This was just two days of fiddling so far.

Well, if that one interests you, mine may also :) http://simpliwiki.com -- it's nodejs & open source.

There must be some interest because I am build a "stripped down" wiki myself too... http://simpliwiki.com

I actually think that there is a "Wikification" thing going on, largely unnoticed.

Crashed when I tried it. The request is still hanging, a minute later.

And I can't do anything to fix it, or deal with it.

I don't want a hosted wiki service. I want a wiki that I host myself on my own machines and that I can fix at will.

Yep, 504 gateway timeout.

I also don't really want to run a wiki on node.js, which is rather untested.

I'll stick with my django + wsgi.

Nice design though, best of luck.

thks! :)

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