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

http://danielchoi.com/software/soywiki.html

by jsavimbi • 15 years ago

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alnayyir3• 15 years ago

(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.

newgame• 15 years ago

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

alnayyir3• 15 years ago

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.

jhrobert4• 15 years ago

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

jhrobert4• 15 years ago

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.

alnayyir3• 15 years ago

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.

yatsyk• 15 years ago

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

wybo• 15 years ago

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

idoh• 15 years ago

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

samuel1604• 15 years ago

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

noste• 15 years ago

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

jhrobert4• 15 years ago

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.

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

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