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ikiwiki 3.20100704 released with these changes

  • Changes to avoid display of ugly google openids, by displaying a username taken from openid.
  • API: Add new optional field nickname to rcs_recentchanges.
  • API: rcs_commit and rcs_commit_staged are now passed named parameters.
  • openid: Store nickname based on username or email provided from openid provider.
  • git: Record the nickname from openid in the git author email.
  • comment: Record the username from openid in the comment page.
  • Fixed some confusion and bugginess about whether rcs_getctime/rcs_getmtime were passed absolute or relative filenames. (Make it relative like everything else.)
  • hnb: Fixed broken use of mkstemp that had caused dangling temp files, and prevented actually rendering hnb files.
  • Use comment template on comments page of example blog.
  • comment.tmpl: Fix up display when inline uses it to display a non-comment page. (Such as a discussion page.)
  • git: Added git_wrapper_background_command option. Can be used to eg, make the git wrapper push to github in the background after ikiwiki runs.
  • po: Added needstranslation() pagespec. (intrigeri)
  • po: Added support for .html source pages. (intrigeri)
  • comment: Fix problem moderating comments of certian pages with utf-8 in their name.
Posted Mon Mar 28 23:43:59 2011

ikiwiki 3.20100815 released with these changes

  • Fix po test suite to not assume ikiwiki's underlay is already installed. Closes: #593047
Posted Mon Mar 28 23:43:59 2011

ikiwiki 3.20100815.3 released with these changes

  • meta: Fix calling of htmlscrubber to pass the page parameter. The change of the htmlscrubber to look at page rather than destpage caused htmlscrubber_skip to not work for meta directives.
Posted Mon Mar 28 23:43:59 2011

ikiwiki 3.20100722 released with these changes

  • img: Add a margin around images displayed by this directive.
  • comments: Added commentmoderation directive for easy linking to the comment moderation queue.
  • aggregate: Write timestamp next aggregation can happen to .ikiwiki/aggregatetime, to allow for more sophisticated cron jobs.
  • Add --changesetup mode that allows easily changing options in a setup file.
  • openid: Fix handling of utf-8 nicknames.
  • Clarified what the filter hook should be passed: Only be the raw, complete text of a page. Not a snippet, or data read in from an unrelated file.
  • template: Do not pass filled in template through filter hook. Avoids causing breakage in po plugin.
  • color, comments, conditional, cutpaste, more, sidebar, toggle: Also avoid unnecessary calls to filter hook.
  • po: needstranslation() pagespec can have a percent specified.
  • Drop Cache-Control must-revalidate (Firefox 3.5.10 does not seem to have the caching problem that was added to work around). Closes: #588623
  • Made much more robust in cases where multiple source files produce conflicting files/directories in the destdir.
  • Updated French translation from Philippe Batailler. Closes: #589423
  • po: Fix selflink display on tranlsated pages. (intrigeri)
  • Avoid showing 'Add a comment' link at the bottom of the comment post form.
Posted Mon Mar 28 23:43:59 2011

Ikiwiki in svn now has support for using OpenID, a decentralized authentication mechanism that allows you to have one login that you can use on a growing number of websites.

Traditional password-based logins are still supported, but I'm considering switching at least ikiwiki.info over to using only OpenID logins. That would mean blowing away all the currently registered users and their preferences. If you're active on this wiki, I suggest you log out and log back in, try out the OpenID signup process if you don't already have an OpenID, and see how OpenID works for you. And let me know your feelings about making such a switch. --Joey

[[!poll 64 "Accept only OpenID for logins" 21 "Accept only password logins" 36 "Accept both"]]

Posted Mon Mar 28 23:43:59 2011

ikiwiki 3.20100623 released with these changes

  • openid: Add openid_realm and openid_cgiurl configuration options, useful in a few edge case setups.
  • attachment: Show files from underlay in attachments list.
  • img: Support hspace and vspace attributes.
  • editpage: Rename "comments" field to avoid CSS conflict with the comments div.
  • edittemplate: Make silent mode not disable display when the template page does not exist, so it can be easily created.
  • edittemplate: Look for template pages under templates/ like everything else (still looks in old location for backwards compatibility).
  • attachment: When inserting links, insert img directives for images, if that plugin is enabled.
  • websetup: Allow enabling plugins listed in disable_plugins.
  • editpage, comments: Fix broken links in sidebar (due to forcebaseurl). (Thanks, privat)
  • calendar: Tune archive_pagespec to only match pages, not other files.
  • Fix issues with combining unicode srcdirs and source files. (Workaround bug #586045)
  • Make --gettime be honored after initial setup.
  • git: Fix --gettime to properly support utf8 filenames.
  • attachment: Support Windows paths when taking basename of client-supplied file name.
  • theme: New plugin, allows easily themeing a site via the underlay.
  • Added actiontabs theme by Svend Sorensen.
  • Added blueview theme by Bernd Zeimetz.
  • mercurial: Fix buggy getctime code. Closes: #586279
  • link: Enhanced to handle URLs and email addresses. (Bernd Zeimetz)
Posted Mon Mar 28 23:43:59 2011

The ikiwiki.info domain has been moved to a new server. If you can see this, your DNS has already caught up and you are using the new server. By the way, the new server should be somewhat faster. --Joey

Posted Sun Dec 13 18:00:42 2009

I've produced a code_swarm visualization of the first 2+ years of ikiwiki's commit history.

[[!img Error: Image::Magick is not installed]]

PS, while I'm posting links to videos, here's a video of a lightning talk about ikiwiki.

--Joey

notes

Interesting things to watch for:

  • Initial development of ikiwiki to the point it was getting web edits. (First 2 seconds of video!)
  • Introduction to plugin support, and later, plugin changes dominating code changes.
  • Introduction of openid support and the resulting swarm of openid commenters.
  • Switch to git, my name in the logs changes from "joey" to "Joey Hess", and there are more code commits directly from others.

Getting the commit log was tricky because every web commit is in there too, so it has to deal with things like IPs and openids. The code swarm log.pl script will munge the log to handle these, and it was configured with code swarm.config.

Video editing by kino, ffmpeg, ffmpeg2theora, and too many hours of pain.

Audio by the Punch Brothers.

Posted Sun Jan 25 22:51:00 2009

Ikiwiki has reached version 3.0 and entered a new phase in its development cycle.

The 3.0 release of ikiwiki changes several defaults and finishes some transitions. You will need to modify your wikis to work with ikiwiki 3.0. A document explaining the process is available in upgrade to 3.0.

The highlights of the changes in version 3.0 include:

Thanks to the many contributors to ikiwiki 3.0, including:

Jelmer Vernooij, Recai Oktaş, William Uther, Simon McVittie, Axel Beckert, Bernd Zeimetz, Gabriel McManus, Paweł Tęcza, Peter Simons, Manoj Srivastava, Patrick Winnertz, Jeremie Koenig, Josh Triplett, thm, Michael Gold, Jason Blevins, Alexandre Dupas, Henrik Brix Andersen, Thomas Keller, Enrico Zini, intrigeri, Scott Bronson, Brian May, Adeodato Simó, Brian Downing, Nis Martensen. (And anyone I missed.)

Also, thanks to the users, bug submitters, and documentation wiki editors. Without you, ikiwiki would just be a little thing I use for my home page.

--Joey

Posted Wed Dec 31 20:43:14 2008

Now you can use git to clone this wiki, and push your changes back, thanks to ikiwiki's new support for untrusted git push. Enjoy working on the wiki while offline! --Joey

Posted Fri Oct 24 20:08:36 2008

Quick poll: Do you feel that ikiwiki is fast enough on this server, or should I move it to my much beefier auxiliary server?

[[!poll open=no 40 "It's fast enough" 6 "It's too slow!" 4 "No opinion"]]

If you have specifics on performance issues, you might mention them on the discussion page.

The current server is a single processor 2.8 ghz Sepron machine shared among 4 other xen instances, and often heavily loaded by extraneous stuff like spamassassin and compiles. The auxiliary server is a dual processor, dual core 2 ghz Opteron shared with other xen instances (exact number not available from provider), but with little other load.

Posted Mon Jul 21 11:32:31 2008

I was asked a good question today: How can a company find someone to work on ikiwiki? To help answer this question, I've set up a consultants page. If you might be interested in being paid to work on ikiwiki, please add your information to the page. --Joey

And here's the first company looking for an ikiwiki developer that I am aware of:

The TOVA Company, a small medical software and hardware company in Portland, Oregon, is looking for developers to add functionality to ikiwiki. We're looking for developers who are already familiar with ikiwiki development, including plugins, and who would be willing to work on a part-time, non-employee, project-based basis for each of the small features that we want. The features we're interested in would obviously be GPL'd, and released to the community (if they'll have them :) ). Please contact Andrew Greenberg (andrew@thetovacompany) if you're interested. Thanks!

Posted Thu Jun 12 20:34:18 2008

I've gone ahead and moved ikiwiki.info to the faster box mentioned on server speed. Most poll respondants felt the old box was fast enough, but it's getting a bit overloaded with other stuff.

If you can see this, you're seeing the new server. If not, your DNS server hasn't caught up yet. I'll keep the old server up for a while too and merge any changes across since git makes that bog-easy.

Please report any problems..

Posted Thu Mar 20 03:07:13 2008

ikiwiki.info has upgraded to the not yet released ikiwiki 2.30. This version of ikiwiki drops support for subscribing to commit mail notifications for pages. The idea is that you can subscribe to the new RecentChanges feed instead. (Or create your own custom feed of only the changes you're interested in, and subscribe to that.)

So if you were subscribed to mail notifications on here, you'll need to change how you keep track of changes. Please let me know if there are any missing features in the RecentChanges feeds.

Statically building the RecentChanges also has performance implications, I'll keep an eye on server speed..

--Joey

Posted Tue Jan 29 23:48:01 2008

I've put together a short screencast that covers approximatly the first half of the setup document, and includes a demo of setting up a blog using ikiwiki.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/screencasts/ikiwiki_blog/

.. And now I've added a second screencast. Note that this uses a script that is only available in the as yet unreleased ikiwiki version 2.15.

http://kitenet.net/~joey/screencasts/ikiwiki_cgi_and_git/

--Joey

Posted Wed Nov 28 19:26:58 2007

I've started using git as ikiwiki's main repository. See download for repository locations.

Note that all the sha1sums have changed from those in previously published git repositories. Blame git-svnimport.

I hope that this will make it easier to maintain and submit patches for ikiwiki.

--Joey

Posted Sat Oct 27 08:16:23 2007

Ikiwiki has reached version 2.0 and entered a new phase in its development cycle.

With the 2.0 release of ikiwiki, some major changes have been made to the default configuration:

  • The usedirs setting is enabled by default. This will break all URLs to wikis that did not have usedirs turned on before, unless you follow the procedure described at switching to usedirs or edit your setup file to turn usedirs off: usedirs => 0,
  • OpenID logins are now enabled by default, if the Net::OpenID::Consumer perl module is available. Password logins are also still enabled by default. If you like, you can turn either OpenID or password logins off via the disable_plugins setting.

An overview of changes in the year since the 1.0 release:

  • New improved URLs to pages via usedirs.
  • OpenID support, enabled by default.
  • Plugin interface added, with some 60 plugins available, greatly expanding the capabilities of ikiwiki.
  • Tags, atom feeds, and generally full-fledged blogging support.
  • Fully working utf8.
  • Optimisations, approximately 3.5 times as fast as version 1.0.
  • Improved scalability to large numbers of pages.
  • Improved scalable logo.
  • Support for additional revision control systems besides svn: git, tla, mercurial.
  • Some support for other markup languages than markdown: rst, textile.
  • Unit test suite, with more than 300 tests.
Posted Mon Apr 30 04:51:57 2007
Integrated issue tracking with Ikiwiki by Joey Hess is now available on LinuxWorld.com. (LinuxWorld's author contract also allows this article to become part of the project's documentation.) Learn how to use Ikiwiki inlining and PageSpecs for lightweight workflow. Joey also explains how having the BTS and docs in the project's revision control system can help users of distributed revision control systems keep bug tracking info in sync with code changes.
Posted Fri Apr 6 21:29:16 2007

Google has accepted ikiwiki as a mentoring organization for Summer of Code 2007.

See our Summer of Code page for projects.

--JoshTriplett

Posted Thu Mar 15 10:55:18 2007

Ikiwiki now has an IRC channel: #ikiwiki on irc.oftc.net

The channel features live commit messages for CIA for changes to both ikiwiki's code and this wiki. Plus occasional talk about ikiwiki.

Thanks to JoshTriplett for making this happen.

Posted Tue Feb 20 10:13:44 2007
Ikiwiki has its own domain now, ikiwiki.info. Update your links.
Posted Sun Feb 18 20:24:26 2007
After looking up and noticing that another 8 hours had passed, replying to people and hacking, I've added a TipJar page, in case anyone feels like tossing me a few bucks for ikiwiki. TIA! --Joey
Posted Fri Dec 29 07:06:41 2006
cia

Commits to ikiwiki's source code are now fed into CIA, and can be browsed, subscribed to etc on its project page. Note that changes to the documentation wiki are currently excluded.

Posted Sun Dec 24 06:12:57 2006

Some people may consider ikiwiki's default look to be a bit plain. Someone on slashdot even suggested perhaps it uses html 1.0. (Yes, an ikiwiki site has survived its first slashdotting. With static html, that's not very hard..) While the default style is indeed plain, there's more fine-tuning going on than you might think, and it's actually all done with xhtml and style sheets.

Stefano Zacchiroli came up with the idea of adding a css market page where IkiWikiUsers can share style sheets that you've come up with for ikiwiki. This is a great idea and I encourage those of you who have customised stylesheets to post them.

I'm also always looking for minimalistic yet refined additions to the default style sheet, and always appreciate suggestions for it.

--Joey

Posted Sat Sep 23 00:13:42 2006

By the way, some other pages with RSS feeds about ikiwiki include plugins, TODO and bugs.