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Wikka Features

The following is a list of features available in Wikka as of version 1.1.6.2.

General information

• Programming language: PHP.
• Storage: MySQL.
• Operating system: platform-independent.
• License: GPL.
• Development status: mature/production.
• Intended audience:
  • Individual users (PIM/website backend);
  • Development teams (software documentation);
  • Companies and organizations (intranet/public website backend).

Output

• W3C compliant XHTML 1.0 transitional.
• Easily customizable layout (CSS 2.0) with CSS-driven print support.
• Global and page-level RSS feeds (RSS 0.92/2.0) with autodiscovery support.
• Easily customizable English interface.
• Footer comments (optional).
• Human- and Search-engine-friendly page titles.
• Page content can be rendered with or without formatting.

Page editing

• GUI page editor.

• Page preview.
• Edit notes support.
• Search & replace handler

• Doubleclick quick editing.

Formatting

• A large selection of wiki markup, featuring support for
  • different text styling;
  • headings;
  • multiple types of lists;
  • code blocks;
  • floats;
  • tables;
  • threaded comments;
  • notes.
• HTML can be embedded in pages in a safe manner.

Links

• Support for:
  • automatically parsed links;
  • image-links;
  • forced links (with link text);
  • plain HTML <a href="..."> links.
• Several shortcuts for interwiki linking.

Media & files

• File uploading/downloading.
• Inline Flash support.
• Images (accessibility enforced through the use of the image action).
• Native support for mindmaps.

Advanced features

• A large selection of plugins and user contributions, including: calendar, feedback form, Google search form among others.
• RSS feed inclusion and RSS Auto Discovery.

• Advanced code highlighting (using GeSHi):

• • support for several languages;
  • easily customizable output;
  • line numbering;
  • clickable markup pointers to official documentation;
• On-the-fly code block downloading.

• WikiPing functionality (optional) to broadcast lists of recent changes to remote servers.

Page-related features

• Page PageOwnership and fine-grained page-level access control.
• Page categories.
• Page cloning utility.
• Pages can be safely embedded in each other.
• Advanced text searching. See TextSearch for examples (some of the examples will only work if MySQL 4.X is in use).

User-related features

• Configurable user login and registration screens.
• Password retrieval utilities.
• User preferences and userpages.
• Lists of pages owned or recently edited by specific users.

Installation

• 100% web-based installer/upgrader.
• 100% web-based upgrading from WakkaWiki.
• Shell/root access not required;
• Optional rewrite rules support.

Security and antispam features

• SafeHTML function to filter potentially dangerous content.
• Fine-grained access control through:
  • folder-level .htaccess files.
  • global ACL.
  • page-level ACL.
• Advanced referrer management with blacklist support.

Statistics and information

• Last edit information.
• Detailed system information.
• Tools for displaying statistics on pages and users.

Page management tools

• Revision management tools:
  • Page history easily viewed at a glance.
  • Full comparison of page revisions (between any two versions) with highlighting of differences.
  • RSS feeds for global changes and for page revisions.
  • Easy retrieval/reverting of previous revisions
  • Recently changed pages, recently commented pages and recent comments.
• Alphabetic page index.
• Tools to track pages without links and missing pages.

Administration tools

• A large number of system configuration settings.
• List of recently registered users.
• Admin users and advanced ACL support for managing user privileges at individual page-level (read/write/comment).
• Page can be deleted by admins or page owner.
• Comments can be deleted by page owner, comment poster, or admins.
• Comments can be toggled off on individual pages.
• Optional gzip page compression.

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