ikiwiki Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Billion File Filesystem

  From the welcome post linked at the top[1] I believe it's using https://ikiwiki.info/ [1] https://blog.liw.fi/posts/welcome/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Can Git or any other VCS be used as a database instead of SQL/NoSQL ones? Have you ever seen such a thing?

  Arguably something like ikiwiki or gollum is doing this. These are both wikis that use git as their backend 'database'. I happen to like wikis like this a lot better over wikis that store their data in mysql or some other traditional SQL backend. Source: 5 months ago

• Simple selfhosted note taking

  I use ikiwiki, but I have also seen gollum mentioned here. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

  Flat text. I'd lean strongly toward something written using Markdown and converted to HTML, though depending on the specific configuration I wanted, straight raw HTML could very well end up being the format. This is a case where content is vastly more significant than presentation or tools used, and simpler is better. Some might also use tools such as Emacs org-mode, Joey Hess's Ikiwiki (https://ikiwiki.info/),... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• A good architecture for user-generated database of active police officers that are documented as being dangerous - had complaints lodged against them, lawsuits, appeared in the press, were recorded behaving questionably, etc.?

  This is ostensibly the approach by ikiwiki, which uses Git, and also that of Code Co-op (a distributed revision control system with a wiki feature). Source: almost 3 years ago

• Emacsconf site uses org-mode?

  We mention in Behind the scenes that we use ikiwiki for generating the website. Source: about 3 years ago