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Announcing the release of Wikka 1.1.6.4-RC1
The Wikka development team has made Wikka 1.1.6.4, release candidate 1 (RC1) available for download and testing. Please download from the WikkaWiki home page. Additional links to the release notes and issue tracker can be found there as well. While this release candidate has been thoroughly vetted by the development team, we do not recommend [...]
Introducing WikkaEdit
At WikkaWiki we love wiki markup. Wiki markup is a simple and fast way to generate well structured XHTML output using a light, 100%-text format that you can safely copy and paste. This is the reason why we all tend to prefer editor toolbars (or directly writing wiki markup) over feature-bloated and unaccessible WISYWIG plugins [...]
Pre-release announcement for security/antispam release 1.1.6.4
Due to the recent upswing in autogenerated wiki spam, the Wikka development team has decided that an interim security release would be in the best interests of Wikka users. While some of the security/antispam features we’ll be introducing have always been available in the Wikka trunk, we realize that many users would rather install [...]
When it rains…
The old say "when it rains it pours" has been very applicable to Wikka the last week or so...
We were just recovering from the shock of about a day downtime as a result of our DNS problems and traffic was picking up again but not quite back
DNS problem solved: wikkawiki.org is back!
We’ve been experiencing some annoying downtime since Sunday due to a problem with our DNS servers. As I write this wikkawiki.org and all its subdomains work as usual. If you still can’t access the WikkaWiki website, this may be due to some minor delay in the propagation of the DNS configuration, so make sure you [...]
Wikka in action: 9 screencasts to understand how a wiki works
If you are new to the concept of a wiki and wish to preview some of the features of WikkaWiki, then these screencasts may be what you are looking for.Nine short QuickTime videoclips introducing the basics of Wikka.
Wikka’s source via WebSVN
To browse and download Wikka’s source code from our SVN repository you can now use WebSVN: http://wush.net/websvn/wikka
Version 2.0 of WebSVN introduces a few interesting features compared to Trac:
a cleaner interface;
a new diff
Have your Cake(PHP) and eat it too!
Extensibility has always been a part of the foundation upon which Wikka was designed and built, and here at the Wikka Labs we are always working towards new ways to make Wikka even more useful to you. I’ve always been a big fan of MVC (model-view-controller) design, and thought it might be useful to explore [...]
Call for beta testers and nightly builds
We are planning to build a base of official testers for WikkaWiki, this post is to announce the launch of our beta-testing programme and the availability of (unstable) nightly builds from our code repository.
Tracker reopens with user registration
Over the last month we have been experiencing persistent spam attacks against the Wikka bug tracker. As a result, the tracker has been locked down as read-only until today.
I’m happy to announce that today the tracker reopens with user registration.